Anita Rée

Anita Clara Rée (born 9 February 1885 in Hamburg, died 12 December 1933 in Kampen) was a German avant-garde painter during the Weimar Republic.

Born into an old Jewish family of Hamburg merchants, she was the daughter of Israel Rée and Clara, née Hahn. Anita and her sister Emilie were however baptized and raised as Lutherans, in accordance with the social norms of assimilated upper middle class and upper class Jewish families in Germany at the time.[1][2]

From 1905, she studied with the Hamburg painter Arthur Siebelist.[3] In 1906, she met Max Liebermann, who recognized her talent and encouraged her to continue her artistic career. During the winter of 1912–1913, she studied with Fernand Léger in Paris.

From around 1914, Anita Rée gained recognition as a portrait painter.

She took her own life in 1933, partly as a result of having been subjected to hostility from various groups and harassment by antisemitic forces, partly due to disappointments on the personal level. In a note to her sister, she decried the insanity of the world. In 1937, the Nazis designated Rée's work as "degenerate art" and began purging it, as well as the work of many other artists, from museum collections.[4] Wilhelm Werner, a groundskeeper at the Kunsthalle Hamburg preserved several of Rée's paintings by hiding them in his apartment.[4]

Exhibitions

1986 - Eva und die Zukunft. Das Bild der Frau seit der Französischen Revolution, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2004 - Kunst der 20er Jahre in Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2005 - Ausgegrenzt, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2006 - Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2010 – Himmel auf Zeit. Kunst der 20er Jahre in Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2011/12: – Die Sammlung des Hausmeisters Wilhelm Werner, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 28. September 2011 bis 15. Januar 2012

Literature

Carl Georg Heise: Anita Rée. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1968
Bettina Roggmann: Anita Rée. In: Eva und die Zukunft. Prestel Verlag, München 1986 (Ausstellungskatalog Hamburger Kunsthalle)
Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (Hrsg.): Jüdische Frauen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-16344-6.
Maike Bruhns: Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin 1885–1933. Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-923356-15-3.

References

Dick/Sassenberg: Jüdische Frauen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. S. 308
Kirchengemeinde St. Ansgar
Kay, Carolyn Helen (2002). Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 144. ISBN 0802009220.
"The Collection of Groundkeeper Wilhelm Werner". Hamburger Kunsthalle. Retrieved 16 December 2014.

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