Lotte Laserstein — A Divided Life

Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) is one of the art world’s most exciting recent rediscoveries. Exhibitions of her work in Germany have attracted broad audiences eager to explore this long-forgotten artist and have established a place for her in the history of twentieth-century art. However, these shows focused primarily on Laserstein’s work from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1930s – the period before she was forced to leave Germany and emigrate to Sweden.

The curators are Iris Müller-Westermann, formerly Museum Director of Moderna Museet Malmö and now Senior Curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and Anna-Carola Krausse, an art historian and Laserstein expert based in Berlin. They say:

–For five decades, Laserstein produced an extremely comprehensive, thematic and stylistically multifaceted collection of works that has only partially come to light in earlier shows. In our exhibition, we ascribe the same status to this period of Laserstein’s life and work as to the time she lived in Berlin.

To the full-length press release, Lotte Laserstein