Arp Museum: Exhibition in the museum focuses on female painters

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Arp Museum exhibition in museum focuses on female painters

Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante (1790–92) by Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun. The painting is one of the works that the Arp Museum in Remagen is showing in the exhibition “Maestras”. photo

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Monet, van Gogh or Vermeer: ​​the names of male artists are known to many. But women have also always had a say in art. An exhibition now focuses on her works.

The Arp Museum in Remagen is focusing on the contribution of women to the history of painting in a new exhibition. The exhibition “Maestras” shows works by 51 female painters from the Middle Ages to the beginnings of modernity, as the museum announced. “Women have been systematically ignored, excluded or treated as isolated cases in the history of art,” it said. Many of her top-class works have previously hung unseen in museum depots.

Women have always been artistically active, said the director of the Arp Museum, Julia Wallner. “It is a long-awaited expansion of perspectives that we can offer with this exhibition in a rich walk through the history of painting.”

The exhibition is scheduled to run from Sunday until mid-June in the museum in Remagen. On display are works of art by women who were already well-known in their time, such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, but also by newly discovered female painters.

Information about the exhibition

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