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Gerda Wegener (15 March 1886 – 28 July 1940)
Gerda Wegener is a name that may currently be more recognisable than it has ever been in the years following her death. Thanks to the release of the motion picture The Danish Girl, a fictionalised, semi-biographical account of the journey made by Gerda...
read moreThe Legacy of the Bauhaus Webereiwerkstatt on Contemporary Fashion
Mela Koehler (18 November 1885 – 15 December 1960)
Melanie Leopoldina Koehler-Broman - or Mela Koehler - was a painter, illustrator, printmaker and applied artist who was closely associated with the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops). She was born on 18 November 1885 in Vienna and she resided in the city for the...
read moreGuerrilla Girls on the Importance of Gender Equality
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (8 June 1912 – 26 January 2004)
British Modernism was arguably one of the most integral movements within British art of the Twentieth Century. This fact comes as no surprise, but perhaps the more surprising aspect was that this revolution and re-thinking of British Art did not come from the cities...
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