When the artist Valeska Röver (1849-1931) founded an art school for women on Glockengießerwall in the heart of Hamburg in 1891, education at state institutions was still exclusively reserved for men. Röver herself had studied at the privately run "Académie Julian" in Paris and was to write an important chapter in art history with her own school.
The exhibition at the Kunsthaus Stade presents this institution and focuses on the work of its founder and its remarkable graduates. It sheds light on the training and working conditions of female artists in the modern era and at the same time takes a look at the networks that shaped their careers. Alma del Banco and Gretchen Wohlwill, Gerda Koppel and Frauke Missfeldt-Bünz were among the artists who studied and made contacts at the private Hamburg Women's School of Painting. The exhibition of their works shows the broad spectrum of female perspectives around 1900 and demonstrates the profound social and aesthetic upheavals of the time.
October 11, 2025 to February 1, 2026
www.museen-stade.de
