Dänische Künstlerinnen in Deutschland ‐ unter besonderer berücksichtigung der Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten

Summary Contrary to Paxis Germany was visited only by a small number of Danish women artists completing their artistic training in the years 1870 to 1914. It is important to question the role of Germany for Danish women artists at a time when in Denmark as well as in Germany no possibility exsisted for women to gain the same artistic training as their male colleagues at the academies. The familiar connections of the women artists to male colleagues were important for their artistic training. An alternative to the ateliers which were run by male artists were schools founded by women artists. The “Verein der Kunstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen” the first school of drawing and painting for women in Germany was founded in Berlin in 1868. It was followed by a department for the education of female drawing teachers at the “Konigliche Kunstgewerbeschule” in Munich in 1872. 1882 a club of female artists was organized in Munich to which two years later a ladies’ academy was attached. A second ladies’ academy was op...