The Fountain

Ed.: Georg Kolbe Museum, Kathleen Reinhardt. authors: Kirsty Bell, Barbara Campaner, Max Czollek, Kasia Fudakowski, Julia Gosse, Carolin Jahn, David Hartt, Markues, Kathleen Reinhardt, Jimmy Robert, Elisa Tamaschke.Published: Distanz Verlag (dt./engl.)

2025 | 136 S. | 32 €

This publication brings together critical and fabulating analyses of the Dancers‘ Fountain, a work originally created in 1922 by artist Georg Kolbe for the garden of a Berlin villa by Heinrich and Jenny Stahl. The contributors interrogate and re-evaluate the stereotypes inherent in the fountain figures and offer various points of entry for its challenging topics. They examine the entangled histories of racism and misogyny, with the anti-Semitic object history of the fountain at its center. Art history and experimental text-based artistic methods transcend genre boundaries in order to offer a more inclusive art historiography. With texts by Kirsty Bell, Max Czollek, Kasia Fudakowski, David Hartt, Markues, Julia Grosse, Jimmy Robert, Kathleen Reinhardt and Elisa Tamaschke among others.