Hedwig Wangel

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Hedwig Wangel was a German performance artist whose practice emerged in the early twentieth century, a period when live performance was still largely confined to theater and dance traditions. Working across several decades in Germany, she developed approaches to bodily presence and ephemeral gesture that anticipated later avant-garde performance practice. Little detailed documentation of her specific works survives, though her activity places her among the earliest practitioners of performance as a distinct artistic medium.

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