Städel Museum - Städel: Women

Modernism is unimaginable without the contribution of women artists.

Alongside well-known women painters and sculptors such as Louise Catherine Breslau, Ottilie Roederstein, and Marg Moll, many others successfully established themselves in the art world during the period around 1900. These include Erna Auerbach, Eugenie Bandell, Mathilde Battenberg, Marie Bertuch, Ida Gerhardi, Dora Hitz, Annie Stebler-Hopf, Elizabeth Nourse, and Louise Schmidt, to name just a few. In Paris and Frankfurt alike, they built international networks and supported one another. As influential teachers and art agents, some of them also helped shape the history of the Städel Museum and Städelschule.

The Städel Museum presents some 80 paintings and sculptures by 26 women artists. Among them are significant loans from major US and European museums and numerous works from private collections, exhibited for the first time. Previously unpublished archival materials accompany these works. Photographs and letters tell of international studio collectives, the strategic importance of professional artist associations and successes, but also of continual efforts to gain recognition.

On the cover: Louise Breslau (1856–1927), Jeune femme et chrysanthèmes - Portrait of Mina Carlson-Bredberg, 1890, oil on canvas © 95 x 91,5 cm, Private collection, Zürich, Photo: Kulturmuseum St. Gallen, Michael Elser 

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