Struggle for visibility
Women Artists of the National Gallery before 1919
03.12.2022 - 07.05.2023 ,
Edwin Scharff Museum (Edwin Scharff Museum)
In 1919, the first women were able to begin their regular studies at the Berlin and Dresden art academies. From this year, when women were allowed to vote for the first time, they were thus finally given equal participation in an academic art education.
The exhibition "Struggle for Visibility", conceived by the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and presented there in 2019, focuses on those women painters and sculptors who made it into the art public eye before 1919 and whose works found their way into the collection of the Nationalgalerie before 1919.
The special exhibition includes around 50 paintings and sculptures by more than 30 women artists spanning 140 creative years. Among them are still well-known modernist figures such as Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) or Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), but also artists who are being rediscovered, such as the outstanding portrait painter Caroline Bardua (1781-1864) or Dora Hitz (1856-1924).
Last edited on 28.10.2024
