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Lotte Laserstein (November 28, 1898 in Preussisch Holland, German Empire – January 21, 1993 in Kalmar, Sweden) was a German-Swedish painter and portraitist. ==Life and work== Laserstein was born in Prussia into a jewish〔http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-christie/lotte-laserstein-berlin_b_4351939.html〕 family. She received her artistic training at the Berlin Academy, which she entered only a couple of years after it had opened its doors to women painters. Here, Laserstein studied under whom she admired greatly. In her final two years at the academy she was his 'star pupil'. This entitled her to her own studio as well as free access to models. She favoured female models, who she claimed were better at holding long and difficult poses. Traute Rose was her favourite model, who became a lifelong friend of Laserstein's and features in many of her works. Berlin in the 1920s was an uneasy yet exciting place. The changes in society were certainly apparent to Laserstein, who was extremely modern in her thoughts. During this time women were growing in independence and were increasingly entering the workplace. Laserstein depicted the New Woman, who also adopted a stereotyped appearance of a masculine look, typically with a man's style haircut. As a single professional woman, Laserstein can be seen to adhere to the definition of the New Woman, and her androgynous look is evident in her many self-portraits, for example, ''Self-portrait with cat'' at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. While Laserstein was a Jewish artist, her early work was typical of both the avant-garde New Objectivity movement and the extremely traditional backward-looking trends in German art of the period. Her works were peopled with attenuated intellectuals such as one sees in the portraits of Christian Schad (the ''Portrait of Baroness Wassilko'', for example), but her figures also often had a strong, cold, and athletic look that would have made them appropriate for Nazi propaganda posters. A painting of a lady tennis player, bursting with strength, is a good example of the type. Laserstein is difficult to place conclusively in any aesthetic category. There is a sense of emotion and a connection with her models which does not appear to be suited to New Objectivity. Art historians have also argued for her placement within German Realism and German Naturalism. Laserstein's masterpiece was the large (about 8' wide) 1930 painting ''Abend uber Potsdam'' (''Evening Over Potsdam'') or ''The Rooftop Garden, Potsdam'', a frieze of friends sharing a meal on their terrace, with Potsdam's skyline arrayed in the far distance. The mood is pensive, full of ennui, and the picture achieves the deepest emotion of any of her works. During the Nazi period in Germany, Laserstein relaocated to Sweden, where she stayed in Stockholm and the city of Kalmar. She created her greatest works in the period between the two world wars. After World War II, her works consisted of inoffensive portraits which lacked the vigour of her early work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lotte Laserstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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