Dancer

Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, DE

2014

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Julie Wolfthorn ranked among the most successful female artists of her day and was one of the few women among the founding members of the Berlin Secession. She was also active in several associations set up to promote women’s art. She often portrayed confident women from the artistic milieu and “Dancer” is an example. Wolfthorn was one of many artists in Berlin persecuted by the Nazis because of their Jewish origins. In 1942 she was deported to the concentration camp at Terezín, where she died in 1944 at the age of 80. Ever since its foundation, the Berlinische Galerie has sought to bring persecuted and forgotten artists to a broader public.