1. Jeanne Mammen was a German painter, illustrator, and printmaker.
19 Facts About Jeanne Mammen
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Jeanne Mammen's work is associated with the New Objectivity, Symbolism, and Cubism movements.
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Jeanne Mammen was born in Berlin, the daughter of a successful German merchant.
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Jeanne Mammen started her studies at Academie Julian, one of few art schools at the time that taught women with the same rigor as men.
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Jeanne Mammen was now financially on her own for the first time, as the French government had confiscated all of her family's property.
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For several years Mammen struggled to make ends meet, taking any work she could find, and spending time with people from different class backgrounds.
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In time Jeanne Mammen was able to find work as a commercial artist, producing fashion plates, movie posters, and caricatures for satirical journals such as Simplicissimus, Ulk, and Jugend.
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Jeanne Mammen's drawings were often compared to those of George Grosz and Otto Dix.
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In 1921, Jeanne Mammen moved into an apartment with her sister in Berlin.
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Jeanne Mammen was close friends with Max Delbruck who left Europe and took some of her artwork with him and exhibited them in California.
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Jeanne Mammen stopped exhibiting her work and focused on advertising.
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Jeanne Mammen created abstract collages from various materials, including candy wrappers.
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Jeanne Mammen was particularly inspired by Picasso and his Guernica.
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Jeanne Mammen's works focused largely on female subjects and female relationships, both platonic and romantic.
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Jeanne Mammen included 14 of her illustrations in Curt Moreck's Guide to Depraved Berlin, published in 1931, a guide to the lesbian and gay scene in Berlin.
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Jeanne Mammen's contributions depicted prostitutes, women-only nightclubs, and bars of the city.
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Jeanne Mammen provided illustrations for Les Chansons de Bilitis, a collection of lesbian love poems.
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In 2010 the Des Moines Art Center exhibited 13 watercolor paintings done by Jeanne Mammen which were inspired by Berlin in the Weimar era.
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The Jeanne Mammen Foundation created a museum of Jeanne's studio apartment at Kurfurstendamm 29, which she lived and worked in for over 50 years.