Dora Hitz - Interplay of femininity and space

Women artists often fade into obscurity, regardless of how influential and style-defining they were in their time. This was also the case for Dora Hitz (1853–1924), who represented modern painting in Berlin around 1900 both stylistically and thematically. Rahel Schrohe demonstrates why it is worthwhile to rediscover the artist's work and offers a completely new perspective on Hitz: she examines her work with a focus on the relationship between femininity and space. Throughout her life, Hitz was regarded as a painter of women, as she created numerous images of mothers with their children and portrayed women of Berlin society. How did Hitz reflect the position of bourgeois women around 1900 and the contemporary discourses on femininity in her paintings? And to what extent did she exploit her societal possibilities to cast a critical eye on the limited agency of women?.