Gender and art

FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum is expanding its modern art holdings through the addition of an important work by Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993). The Städel is thus the first public museum in Germany outside Berlin to purchase a work by this artist. Laserstein studied at the Berlin art academy and was distinguished with the gold medal there in 1925. She had her first solo exhibition in 1931 at the prestigious Fritz Gurlitt gallery, likewise in Berlin. Her emerging career was brought to an abrupt end by National Socialism. In 1937, on account of her Jewish heritage, the artist saw herself compelled to emigrate to Sweden, where she died in 1993.