Lecture Margarete Zimmermann January 17, 2019
Prof. Dr. Margarete Zimmermann: Texts and Textiles. Sonia Delaunay and the Avant-Gardes
Poster on the occasion of the lecture “Texts and Textiles: Sonia Delaunay and the Avant-garde” by Prof. Dr. Margarete Zimmermann on January 17, 2019, at TU Dresden.
David Bowie and Sonia Delaunay—at first glance, the two seem to have nothing in common, and yet the British pop icon wore a costume inspired by the French avant-garde artist with Ukrainian-Jewish roots during a performance in 1979.
In her lecture “Texts and Textiles. Sonia Delaunay and the Avant-Gardes,” Berlin-based Romanist Margarete Zimmermann examined the role of this painter and textile artist within the international avant-garde movements of the first half of the 20th century, highlighting entirely different forms of cultural transfer, migration, and network formation in the process.
To this end, she not only attempted to map Sonia Delaunay’s movements through geographical and social spaces—from Ukraine to St. Petersburg, from Karlsruhe to Paris and Berlin—but also explored her movements “between” the arts and various languages, materials, and systems of signs. The lecture focused in particular on Sonia Delaunay’s “Simultanmode,” which enjoyed international success in the 1920s and has retained its place in cultural memory to this day.
As part of the lecture series “Avant-garde – Migration – Cultural Transfer” by Prof. Dr. Roswitha Böhm.
WHEN? January 17, 2019, 11:10 a.m.
WHERE? SLK Faculty, Wiener Str. 48, 01219 Dresden, Room 0.04