Gertrud Arndt
Gertrud Arndt (née Hantschk; 20 September 1903 – 10 July 2000) was a photographer associated with the Bauhaus movement. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits from around 1930.
Biography
Born in Ratibor (then Upper Silesia) in September 1903, she started taking photographs and learning darkroom techniques while serving at an architectural office in Erfurt, documenting local buildings. Thanks to a scholarship, from 1923 to 1927, she studied at the Bauhaus. She had hoped to study architecture there but as there was no course, she specialized in weaving. Her most famous carpet - which has not survived - lay in the room of Walter Gropius from 1924 onwards. Thereafter she returned to photography which she had learnt herself, developing her skills throughout her Bauhaus studies.
In 1927, she married fellow student Alfred Arndt, who was appointed head of the Bauhaus extension workshop in Dessau in 1929. There she produced a series of 43 self-portraits as well as images of her friend Otti Berger. In 1932, the couple moved to Probstzella in Thuringia, where they stayed until 1948. They finally settled in Darmstadt, where Gertud Arndt died in July 2000.
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Gertrud (play)
Gertrud is a Swedish 1906 play (drama), in three parts, by author and playwright Hjalmar Söderberg.
Story description
The play is a modern relationship drama (in Sweden often considered as one of the very best Swedish plays ever written) with the middle-age Gertrud in the centre and about her relationships with three different men; her husband Gustav Kanning (a politician), her older, former lover Gabriel Lidman (a poet) and her newfound love Erland Jansson (a young composer): men who have desired — and desire her — in three different ways.
The first act is set in Gustaf Kanning's study at home where Gertrud in the dark, in the first scene, awaits her husband's return from work as she has something important to tell: she's going to leave him. How will Kanning react to this? How will her former love interest — who suddenly returns from a long trip overseas — react? Is her newfound love worth the sacrifice she is about to make?
The play is a penetrating drama on life, love and passion. About the feeling of being trapped and confined in a marriage, the need of love and the search of THE LOVE; but does it exist? How does it show itself and what is real love anyway? Is it a fundamental right to love and be loved? It's also a play about how we all value love and closeness in a relationship — and the need and importance of it in our lives — so completely different. Women and men, and from man to man and woman to woman. Why is it all so difficult?
Gertrud (novel)
Gertrud is a novel written by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1910.
Plot summary
Styled as the memoir of a famous composer named Kuhn, Gertrud tells of his childhood and young adult years before it comes to the heart of the story; his relationships to two troubled artists, the eponymous Gertrud Imthor, and the opera singer Heinrich Muoth. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrud upon their first encounter, but she falls in love with and marries Muoth, whom the composer befriended as well some years before. The two are hopelessly ill-matched, and their destructive relationship provides the basis for Kuhn's magnum opus.
Analysis
Like many of Hesse's novels, there is a strong influence derived from Nietzsche, specifically his work The Birth of Tragedy. Muoth represents the passionate Dionysian elements of art, while Gertrud represents the more refined Apollonian elements. The fact that Kuhn's opera is the result of their relationship suggests the combining of the two elements to form a work of high art.
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