Exhibition Opening

The exhibition reveals the important role that Jewish women designers played in German society’s process of eman­cipation and modernization in the early twentieth century—as women, as Jews, and as artists. Some managed to escape and start afresh abroad, but almost all have re­mained excluded from the history of German art and culture up to the present day. 

Featuring exhibits by more than sixty designers, this is the world’s first collective exhibition on the theme. It brings together pioneering women who battled social marginali­zation to attain prominent positions in their own domains—until the Nazi regime destroyed their careers and lives. Through their works, the Jewish Museum Berlin gives new visibility to their forgotten biographies and their artistic and entre­preneurial achieve­ments. Visitors to the exhibition will en­counter a broad spectrum of design and craft techniques, from gold­smithing and textiles, ceramics and wood carving, to fashion design and graphics. 

With funding provided by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. We also thank the David Berg Foundation for their kind support.