Geschlechterkampf

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  King Kong
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  Die Versuchung des St. Antoine
• The Kiss

Films shown in the exhibition were mostly from the Pre-Code-era.

There were other versions or castings of these sculptures present:

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  Phytia, Marcello
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  Tennisspielerin (tennis player), Constantin Starck
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  Gorille enlevant une femme, Jean-Pierre Dalbéra
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  Amazone, Franz von Stuck
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  Persée et la gorgone, Laurent-Honoré Marqueste

Marcello's sculpture Pythia is a representation of the priest of the oracle of Delphi, who made her prophecies under the influence of hallucinogenic gas. They were then interpreted by male priests. Well known is the prediction to the people of Athens to use wooden walls as a means to defeat the Persians. This was taken as advice to build triremes. The Persian fleet was defeated in the Battle of Salamis. On display is one of many castings of this main work of Marcello. The male pseudonym was used by the countess Adélaïde Nathalie Marie Hedwige Philippine d’Affry, who could not benefit from an education at the PAFA where Eakins allowed women to study the nude. Therefore, she used castings of her own body in creating the sculpture.

The tennis player was able to engage in this sport as rules on female clothing had by the time been relaxed.

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  La tentation de Saint Antoine, Felicien Rops
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  Puberty, Edvard Munch
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  Adam and Eve, Suzanne Valadon
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  Lilith, John Collier
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  Simson and Delia, Max Liebermann
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  Salome II, Lovis Corinth
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  Clytemnestra

Suzanne Valadon modeled herself as Eve. Adam is a portrait of her muse, her twenty years younger lover. Both grab together for the forbidden fruit. Lilith was Adam's first wife and had to be replaced by Eve, when she showed her open hair in public and also fell otherwise out of the female role model.

Clytemnestra is holding the sword she used to kill her husband, after he was willing to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia to Artemis.

Franz von Stuck, Edvard Munch, Otto Dix and Frida Kahlo are all represented by a number of paintings.

Meret Oppenheim's My Nurse is part of the exhibition.

Art used the exhibition as a cover story with the headlines "Leider geil!", "Lustmord-Bilder sind der Höhepunkt des Frauenhasses" and "Der groteske US-Wahlkampf war der totale Geschlechterkampf".[1] Kunstzeitung speaks of a parade full of facets, spanning a hundred years.[2] Handelsblatt sees a contrast between first rate works and sultry perfumed paintings from the second tier.[3] Schwäbische Zeitung describes the fighting scenes as a traditional costume parade at a town festival.[4] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung comments on the timing of the exhibition at the inauguration of Donald Trump.[5]

• Battle of the sexes: Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo, Felix Krämer, Cynthia Hall, Städel Museum, Prestel-Verlag, München, London, New York, 2016
• Geschlechterkampf: Franz von Stuck bis Frida Kahlo, Felix Krämer, Städel, Prestel, München, Frankfurt, 2016
• Geschlechterkampf, Brochure of the Städel-Museum, available at the Museumshop

• Website
• Digitorial
• Promo-Video on YouTube
• #LetsTalkAboutSexes – die Beiträge zur Social-Media-Aktion 10 February 2017, Sarah Omar