The Dutch artist Jacoba van Heemskerck was one of the few women to feature prominently in avant-garde artistic circles in Berlin. She was a favorite of influential art dealer Herwarth Walden; her works were frequently exhibited at Walden’s gallery and reproduced in his journal, Der Sturm. This drawing, like much of her work, features an abstracted landscape in a vocabulary of planar surfaces and simplified, geometric forms. Though van Heemskerck was not an architect, her fantastic architectonic renderings were included in the Exhibition of Unknown Architects organized by Walter Gropius and the Working Council for Art in 1919.

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