Her story, like those of so many other female artists from the fin-de-siecle Vienna, ends with the same result: they have not only been unfairly forgotten, they have suffered displacement. — Julie M. Johnson (image via Wikimedia Commons) At 20, Teresa (scandalously) divorced her husband. She left her native Russia, moved to Vienna and then organized an avante-garde troupe of female artists and refused to wear anything but loose, sack-like painting smocks. She frustrated her art professors so much that they (famously) kicked her out of school in the early 1910s. But the people adored her work. She sculpted
A Woman to Know: Teresa Feoderovna Ries
A Woman to Know: Teresa Feoderovna Ries
A Woman to Know: Teresa Feoderovna Ries
Her story, like those of so many other female artists from the fin-de-siecle Vienna, ends with the same result: they have not only been unfairly forgotten, they have suffered displacement. — Julie M. Johnson (image via Wikimedia Commons) At 20, Teresa (scandalously) divorced her husband. She left her native Russia, moved to Vienna and then organized an avante-garde troupe of female artists and refused to wear anything but loose, sack-like painting smocks. She frustrated her art professors so much that they (famously) kicked her out of school in the early 1910s. But the people adored her work. She sculpted