Workshop Programme
Tender Hands and Rough Stone. Sculpture’s Stereotypes of Gender and Making
5.4.2022
17.30 Anna Frasca-Rath (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Introduction: Tender Hands and Rough Stone
17.50 Ariane Varela Braga (University of Zurich)
Welcome on behalf of NeReMa
18.00 Paris Amanda Spies-Gans (Harvard University)
Evening Lecture: Reframing the Canon: Myths and Makings of the Premodern Woman Artist
19.00 Aperitivo
6.4.2022
Moderation: Marthe Kretzschmar (University of Vienna)
8.45 Welcome and Introduction
9.00 Annette Ritter-Höll (Ritter Natursteinberatung und -begutachtung)
Morning Lecture: Natur(werk)stein
10.00 Coffee break
10.30 Buket Altinoba (LMU Munich)
Raising the Veil. Sculpture Machines and the Demystification of Sculptural Production in the Late 19th Century
11.00 Karen Busk-Jepsen (The Royal Danish Collection, Copenhagen)
A Workspace of One’s Own. The Problem of Workspace for the 19th Century Danish Woman Sculptor
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Ursula Ströbele (ZI Munich)
Elasticity as a Sculptural Aesthetic Category
12.30 Anna Frasca-Rath (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
What about Early Modern Women Sculptors (1550-1850)?
13.00 Lunch
13.30 Susanna Avery-Quash (National Gallery, London)
Lunch talk: The National Gallery’s ‘Women and the Arts Forum’: Research for Public Benefit Concerning Women’s Contributions to Knowledge about and Interactions with Old Master Painting
14.00 Holly Trusted (V&A/PSSA, London)/ Joanna Barnes (PSSA, London)
Lunch talk, ‘Database and Dialogues: Discovering Women Sculptors and Their Work’. A Presentation by the Public Statues and Sculpture Association
14.30 Coffee Break
15.00 Tobias Kämpf (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Contrasting Rodin Narratives: The Mystification of the Modern Artist and Its Authors
15.30 Linda Hinners (National Gallery, Stockholm)
What is lacking in the treatment of the Centaur is a man” Sigrid Fridman (1879-1963) First Woman Sculptor of Public Monuments in Sweden
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Julia K. Dabbs (University of Minnesota)
Writing the Woman Artist: May Alcott Nieriker and Me
17.00 Anna Frasca-Rath (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Concluding Remarks
20.00 Dinner