Koža

A young painter, known only as K., is consumed by admiration for the German Expressionist Paula Modersohn-Becker: her search for a new way of painting and her fight for personal freedom, paid for with family trauma and social hostility. Set between 1900 and 1933, often in Berlin, the story follows how women artists after the Great War tried to balance private and public life while looking for a new art and a 'new woman'. Its threads reach into the politics of the time, including the rise of fascism in parts of Europe, and into what that past has left in the present. The text comes with photographs in which a visual artist offers her own performative reading of it.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

158 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 1900–1933

First published

2019 by Aspekt

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9788081510816 (original)