{"id":56421,"date":"2026-07-22T15:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/?post_type=magazin-artikel&#038;p=56421"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:11:29","slug":"of-women-who-rule-the-world","status":"publish","type":"magazin-artikel","link":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/schirnmag\/of-women-who-rule-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Of women who rule the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/header-magazin-artwork'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork margin-bottom-3'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork-bg-wrapper'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork-bg-wrapper-contents'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork-bg'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline  lazy-background-fill\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_KO7nrn\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 56418,\n\"sizes\" : 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She is wearing a white glove.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col col-xs-12\"><div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><div class=\"ho-tag-group flex-align-top-right\"><div class=\"ho-tag is-tertiary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/hauptkategorie\/context-en\/\" class=\"ho-tag-label\">Context<\/a><\/div><div class=\"ho-tag is-tertiary\" style=\"background-color:#f45738;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/ho_ausstellung\/leonor-fini-2-en\/\" class=\"ho-tag-label\">Leonor Fini<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col col-xs-12\"><div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><div class=\"ho-tag-group flex-align-top-right\"><div class=\"ho-tag is-primary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/tag\/exhibition\/\" class=\"ho-tag-label\">Exhibition<\/a><\/div><div class=\"ho-tag is-primary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/tag\/feminism\/\" class=\"ho-tag-label\">Feminism<\/a><\/div><div class=\"ho-tag is-primary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/tag\/art-history\/\" class=\"ho-tag-label\">Art History<\/a><\/div><div class=\"ho-tag is-primary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/tag\/modern-art\/\" class=\"ho-tag-label\">Modern Art<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 last-xs col-md-8'>\t<p class='ho-sd-h4'>In her art, Leonor Fini created a new social order, populated by sphinxes and militant heroines. And was inspired by numerous historical influences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Leonor Fini (1907\u20131996) was once described by her New York gallerist Julian Levy as \u201c(\u2026) not a beautiful woman; her parts did not fit well together: head of a lioness, mind of a man, bust of a woman, torso of a child, grace of an angel and discourse of the devil\u2026her allure was an ability to dominate her misfitted parts so that they merged into whatever shape her fantasy wished to present from one moment to the next\u201d. <br><br>While Levy\u2019s words may reflect the crucial role he played in promoting a new Surrealist \u2018type\u2019 to American audiences in the 1930 and \u201840s, it also reminds us of the role of women within that typology: she was invariably fashioned as the exotic and animalistic femme fatale. Whether a model, muse or artist she was expected to embody the essence of Surrealism \u2013 fantasy. However, female surrealists were quick to steer this gendering of fantasy towards their own independent expression and to fashion a new iconography which spoke to the idea of a modern, sexually liberated, woman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 ho-pattern-optional-button padding-top-4'>\n\n<div  class='wp-block-ho-buttons '>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-buttons-item\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/\"  target=\"\" role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ho-button is-primary mobile-full-width\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ho-button-label \">Lorem Ipsum<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-medien-bild-text-links-grosses-bild-rechts-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6  mobile-margin-bottom-4'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4 ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">The women surrealists developed a new, liberated visual language<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Born in Buenos Aires as a child of Italian and Slav parents and brought up in Trieste in the circle of James Joyce and Rainer Maria Rilke, Fini turned to numerous historical sources for inspiration as she mastered her own artistic style and iconography. In her work she took inspiration from a range of artists \u2013 from Hieronymus Bosch and the Italian Mannerist Agnolo Bronzino to Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Giorgio de Chirico. <br><br>When she moved to Paris in 1931 in search of Surrealist art she happily found that she was better versed in the writings of Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche than many others in that group of Surrealist artists. Merging various influences in her meticulous brush strokes, lavish palette and textures, with her interests in psychoanalysis, philosophy, mythology and sorcery, Fini\u2019s focus on woman as a sensual and sexual creature \u2013 and often a cruel dominatrix or predator \u2013 led Surrealism in new directions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 56416,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-235x300.jpg\",\"width\":235,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":23942},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-804x1024.jpg\",\"width\":804,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":253678},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-768x978.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":978,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":231892},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-1206x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1206,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":536523},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-1608x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1608,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":862976},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-345x440.jpg\",\"width\":345,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":47195},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-455x580.jpg\",\"width\":455,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":80524},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-565x720.jpg\",\"width\":565,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":124137},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-1005x1280.jpg\",\"width\":1005,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":387658},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948-1507x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1507,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":780813},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Fini_Le_Bout_Du_Monde_1948.jpg\",\"width\":1854,\"height\":2362}},\n\"alt\" : \"Surrealist painting of a female figure in water, surrounded by eyes and surreal elements, under a dramatic sky.\",\n\"path\" : \"https:\\\/\\\/schirn.b-cdn.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:127.40021574973%; 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The door ensures the scene hovers between dream and nightmare while the viewer is drawn into an erotic drama in which he\/she is a voyeur. This dynamic would come to dominate all of Fini\u2019s canvases as she obsessively returned to the femme-fatale image, portraying women \u2013 including herself and female friends &#8211; with leonine hair, fin-du-si\u00e8cle costumes, and a bold Medusa-like stare. In \u201cThe Shepherdess of the Sphinxes\u201d (1941) the same female type is presented amongst a harem of sphinxes in an equally desolate landscape, but she is now wearing a skimpy metal armour which serves to lead the eye of the viewer to her sex and to the phallic staff she wields.<br><br>Male surrealists often turned to Greek mythology, notably the tale of Oedipus, so it is not surprising that Fini repeatedly portrayed the sphinx from the very same mythological tale. However, she differed from many of her male peers in staging the sphinx as all-powerful and the Oedipal male as a plaything for her fancy, as seen in some of her most famous works, notably \u201cChthonian Deity Watching over the Sleep of a Young Man\u201d (1946) and \u201cThe Ends of the World\u201d (1949) where skulls surround the sphinx. <br><br>In these paintings, Fini effectively reverses the traditional roles of man and woman as she stages the female as a heroic figure and the male as a beautiful, passive nude (modelled after her lover, the Italian Count Sforzino Sforza). Fini explained that the nude male was often asleep in her paintings as \u201cmen allow the duties of work, social life and war to anaesthetize them to the life of the spirit\u201d. The sphinx dominates the wartime-paintings of Fini, allowing her to reverse traditional gender roles as well as to critique a society in which men are expected to be aggressive, and women to be passive.<br><br>The sphinx \u2013 half woman half lioness \u2013 symbolized the fusion of masculine and feminine characteristics, the animus and the anima, and the vision of a less aggressive social order. 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As the color red symbolizes an alchemical path, Fini intimates the male will experience some form of initiation in this stone tower. It was painted while Fini and her two lovers, Stanislao L\u00e8pri and Konstanty (Kot) Jele\u0144ski were staying in the Torre San Lorenzo in Italy. And indeed, the slim male resembles the thirty-year-old Jele\u0144ski whilst his initiator can be identified as Fini herself. In the 1950s Fini\u2019s imagery shifted towards a focus on sorcery and death through priestess-like females, in red or golden robes, as in \u201cGuardian with a Red Egg\u201d (1955) and \u201cThe Victim is Queen\u201d (1963). The symbol of the egg and the flame-like colors suggest the alchemical power of transformation, ascribing this power to woman.<br><br>In endowing the female with the power over life and death, Fini again subverts the equation of woman with virtue, motherhood or obedience. 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