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    Title

  • Portrait of Ida Dehmel, founder of GEDOK

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white reproduction ; 20 x 15 cm

  • Date

    1927

  • Notes

    German title on verso: 'Ida Dehmel als sie 1927 die GEDOK gruendete'.

  • Summary

    Reproduction of a portrait of Ida Dehmel, painted in 1927, when she founded GEDOK, the organization for women artists in Germany and in Austria.

  • Depicted

    Dehmel, Ida, 1870-1942

  • Subject

    Feminists; Poets; Portraits, Women

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Robert Weltsch Collection, AR 7185

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Biographical/Historical Information

The German poet Ida Dehmel, née Coblenz was born in Bingen am Rhein in 1870. Her first marriage to businessman Leopold Auerbach ended in divorce, and she was then married to the author Richard Dehmel (1863 – 1920). Ida Dehmel was active in various feminist causes, and in 1926 she was instrumental in founding the “League of female artists associations of all genres”, GEDOK (Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Künstlerinnenvereine aller Kunstgattungen". Facing deportation in 1942, Ida Dehmel committed suicide.

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Citation

Portrait of Ida Dehmel, founder of GEDOK, Leo Baeck Institute, F 83130.