Standing Baby Bear (Stehender kleiner Bär)

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Standing Baby Bear (Stehender kleiner Bär)

Alternate Title: Stehender kleiner Bär

Germany, 20th century
Prints
Drypoint on wove paper
Plate: 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in. (22.23 x 16.83 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund (AC1992.237.8)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

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Renée Sintenis depicted animal and human forms alike in a simplified, streamlined style, their elongated limbs arranged in balletic poses....
Renée Sintenis depicted animal and human forms alike in a simplified, streamlined style, their elongated limbs arranged in balletic poses. In 1931 she became the second woman (after Käthe Kollwitz) to be admitted to the Academy of Arts; when the Nazis came to power, she was expelled and her work targeted as “degenerate.” This drypoint of a baby bear, recalls her most famous work: the “Berlin bear,” one of the city’s most beloved public sculptures and the source for the Golden Bear statuette of the Berlin Film Festival.

Exhibition Label: Women’s Work: Art by Women in Germany, 1900–1933, 2021, Erin Maynes.
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