Weimar’s Others: Art History, Alterity and Regionalism in Inter-War Germany

A panel discussion with Dr Nina Lübbren, Professor Dorothy Price and Dr. Camilla Smith on what Weimar culture has contributed to the discipline of art history, one hundred years after the Republic’s formation. A Special issue launch of the journal of Art History.
Dr Nina Lübbren is a Principal Lecturer in the Creative School of Creative Industries at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She is the author of Rural Artists’ Colonies in Europe, 1870-1910(Manchester University Press, 2001); and the co-editor of Visual Culture and Tourism (Berg, 2003) and Painting and Narrative in France (Ashgate/ Routledge, 2016). She is also the author of articles and chapters on German sculpture (the ‘Weimar’s Others’ issue of Art History, 2019; The Art of War, eds D. Ascher Barnstone and B. McCloskey, Peter Lang, 2017); Art and Resistance in Germany, eds D. Ascher Barnstone and E. Otto, Bloomsbury, 2018; Sculpture and the Decorative, eds I. Hart and C. Jones, 2019; Art History, Sept. 2019). She is currently completing two books: one on German sculpture, 1910-1945, and the other on visual narrative in nineteenth-century European painting.
Professor Dorothy Price is Editor of Art History the journal of the Association for Art History and lectures in the History of Art Department at the University of Bristol. She specialises in German art, in particular Expressionism and Weimar visual culture, Black British Art, feminism, gender and critical race art history. She is author and editor of numerous books, articles and exhibition essays including the monographs Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany (2003) and After Dada: Marta Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-Garde (2013). She has also curated a number of exhibitions including most recently Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Maing Thing at The Lowry, Salford in 2018. Amongst other things, she is currently working with the artist Sonia Boyce MBE RA on a special issue of Art History arising from Boyce’s AHRC-funded Black Artists and Modernism project.
Dr. Camilla Smith is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Birmingham, where she specialises in early twentieth-century German art and visual culture. Her articles on Weimar culture have appeared in the journals Art History, Oxford Art Journal, New German Critique and The German Quarterly. She has contributed essays in catalogues for exhibitions held in Berlin, London, Vienna and Würzburg. Forthcoming essays appear in conjunction with the exhibitions ‘Wolfgang Gurlitt Zauberprinz Kunsthändler ­- Sammler’ (4 October 2019 - 19 January 2020) held at the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz and ‘Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art’ (4 October 2019 - 19 January 2020) organised by the Barbican Art Gallery, London. She has been awarded fellowships in Germany and the United States to undertake research. Her monograph on the artist Jeanne Mammen is forthcoming. She is currently working on a book-length project on German erotic visual cultures.