- Title
- Standing Baby Bear (Stehender kleiner Bär)
- Date Made
- 20th century
- Medium
- Drypoint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in. (22.23 x 16.83 cm)
- Accession Number
- AC1992.237.8
- Collecting Area
- Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
- Curatorial Notes
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.
- Selected Bibliography
Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.
