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Charlotte Behrend-Corinth ( 1880 - 1967)

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As a graphic artist started around 1909 Charlotte created a series of successful lithographic portfolios with famous contemporaries. Among them (experimental and controversial) dancers like Anita Berber (1899-1929) and Jewish Valeska Gert (= Gertrude Valesca Samosch 1892-1978) daughter of successful Berlin businessman Theodor Samosch (b. Breslau 1852) who like Charlottes father lost his fortune after bad investments in 1914, and Augusta Rosenthal (b. Berlin 1864). Her father manufactured and traded popular hat ascesories in “Blumen und Schmuckfedernfabrik Zade & Falk”.

The performing lady in this no doubt rare surviving example, which was found with a differently coloured dress, is presumed to represent Valeska Gert.

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Dear print lover, passing-by visitor and reader:

While this new gallery-museum site is under construction (being build-up, stocked and arranged) priority must be given to first add all the represented artists in the index with works from the collection and if possible with the examples from the archives.

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Read more about the artists, their lives, families and careers in the new and extensive Artist Lexicon: “DAS HAUS DER FRAU, the short biographies” accompanying this exhibition.

Hundreds of new artist biographies, a private publication in 2 Volumes written conveniently in English.

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A. Behar (? - ?)

Unknown Printmaker. Unidentified artist no doubt belonging to the Sephardic Turkish-Jewish Behar family (clan) who had fled Istanbul after the renewed Turkish nationalist sentiments after WW-I settling in Germany. Many Behar family members were involved in the trade and repair of oriental classic rugs (Glasgow, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart Paris and America).

Behar, A. Monochrome print of (resting) Zebus (Bos Taurus Var. Indicus major) in Vienna Tiergarten Schönbrun, the worlds oldest Zoo (founded 1752). This Zoo is known to have bread these animals since 1829.

Behar, Marianne.

Osborn 1926 Handbuch: Marianne Behar, Malerin, Munich, Hohenstaufenstrasse 10.

Dresslers KHB 1930: Marianne Behar, Malerin, Munich, Hohenstaufenstrasse 10.

More info: Das Haus der Frau Vol. 1

Berend-Corinth, Charlotte

(Berlin 25-05-1880 - 10-01-1967 New-York)

Painter, book illustrator, author and graphic artist. Daughter of Jewish textile merchant and cotton & wool importer Ernst Berend (1847-1899 suicide) and Hedwig Gumpertz (1853 - 1930) a Jewish bankers daughter. Her father committed suicide (shot himself) after loosing his fortune speculating in the stock market.

She had an elder sister Alice Berend (Berlin 30-06-1875 - 02-04-1938 Florence) who was an author. Married 1. John Jönsson with him she had a daughter Charlotte (1910-1979) who became a painter, and 2. Hans Breininger. Both marriages ended in divorce.

Her father originated from a family of traders and merchants settled in Dessau and Hamburg.

1847 Adressbuch Hamburg: “Behrend, John et Co., Kaufl. Banco-Cto. unt Hren. J. P. N. Jahncke Wwe. et J. J. F. Bussmann,gr. Reichenstrasse no 9”.

The well to do family lived at Kochstrasse and later at posh Burggrafensttrasse and Kantstrasse near Tiergarten Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. The business was situated at Alexanderplatz.

Received first lessons from Eva Stort (1855-1936) who’d been a student of Max Liebermann and entered the “Zeichenschule” in Berlin Schöneberg in 1898 and studied privately under Maximillian Schäfer (1851-1916) and Ludwig Manzel (1858-1936). Then entered the “Schule des Kunstgewerbe Museum”. She became the first student in the private painting school (*) of Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) whose model, muse and wife (1903) she became. They had a son (Thomas (1904) and daughter Wilhelmina (1909).

* See also Marie Wippermann and Agnes von Bülow-Salomon.

Corinth created around 80 portraits of his wife who gave up her artistic career after his stroke in 1911.

In 1927 she opened her own painting school in the same building as her husband’s school at Klopstockstrasse 48. Travelled to Italy, Turkey, Egypt and Denmark and stayed in Italy mostly during the 1930s.

She exhibited in the US and in 1939 moved to New York where her son Thomas lived.

Joined the Berlin Secession in 1906 and exhibited since 1908.