ZORGANIZOWANE I ZAANGAŻOWANE”. MIESZCZAŃSKI RUCH KOBIECY I KOBIECY RUCH ARTYSTYCZNY W NIEMCZECH PRZEŁOMU XIX I XX WIEKU ZE SZCZEGÓLNYM UWZGLĘDNIENIEM STOWARZYSZENIA ARTYSTEK ŚLĄSKICH
“ORGANIZED AND ENGAGED”. BOURGEOISIE WOMEN MOVEMENT AND FEMALE ARTISTS MOVEMENT IN GERMAN AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES WITH A PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE ASSOCIATION OF SILESIAN WOMEN ARTISTS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the activity of women’s artistic associations in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It focuses on the Silesian Women-Artists Association founded in Breslau (now Wrocław) in 1902. The association’s goal was a protection of the members’ interests, an organization of the collective exhibitions and a dispatch of artworks to bigger exhibitions. The positioning of the Breslau Association in the process of formation of the women’s association culture in the bourgeois milieu, with the help of a sociological perspective and social class categories, is the main goal of the article. The applied method is justified not only by the references to the literature using or analyzing the same sociological perspective, but also by visible connections between the social context and the subject and style of the works of art. The city was the hob of the association activity and it enabled collective actions. The cultural capital and behavior patterns created in the bourgeois milieu stirred up an activity of women and women-artists, who started to associate. They left the private sphere which had been ascribed to them, and entered the public, which had been reserved for men. In 2002, Rita Huber-Sperl wrote „The associations, generally speaking, and women’s associations in particular, are achievements of the bourgeoisie”. The Breslau Association seems to affirm the quoted thesis.

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