From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of women artists who were born in
Germany or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
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Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer
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Tomma Abts (born 1967), abstract painter
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Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846), painter
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Anni Albers (1899–1994), German-American textile artist, printmaker
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Nykolai Aleksander (born 1978), digital artist
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Elisabeth Andrae (1876–1945), painter
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Annot (1894–1981), painter, art teacher, writer, pacifist
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Clara Arnheim (1865–1942), painter
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Ulrike Arnold (born 1950), artist
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Ursula Arnold (1929–2012), photographer
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Irene Awret (1921–2014), artist, author and Holocaust survivor
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Eva Aschoff (1900–1969), visual artist
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Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli (1733–1809 or later), miniaturist, pastelist and court painter
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Elvira Bach (born 1951), painter
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Bele Bachem (1916–2005), graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and writer
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Nina Lola Bachhuber (born 1971), sculptor, installation artist, artist
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Carola Baer-von Mathes (1857–1940), painter
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Alma del Banco (1862–1943), modernist painter
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Tina Bara (born 1962), photographer
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Caroline Bardua (1781–1864), painter
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Uta Barth (born 1958), photographer
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Carla Bartheel (1902–1983), actress and photographer
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Jeanna Bauck (1840–1926), painter
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Karin Baumeister-Rehm (born 1971), painter
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Mary Baumeister (1934–2023), artist
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Hilla Becher (1934–2015), photographer
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Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), photographer
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Gisela Beker (1932–2015), German-American painter
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Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), photographer
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Karin Baumeister-Rehm (1881–1964), painter and opera singer
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Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920), painter
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Olga Beggrow-Hartmann (1862–1922), German/Russian, painter
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Julia Behr (fl.1865–1890s), portrait painter
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Amalie Bensinger (1809–1889), religious painter
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Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967), painter
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Josefa Berens-Totenohl (1891–1969), writer and painter
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Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker
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Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), German-born American photographer
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Lis Beyer (1906–1973), textile artist
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Hanna Bieber-Böhm (1851–1910), painter
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Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), photographer
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Ilse Bing (1899–1998), avant-garde photographer
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Frieda Blell (1874–1951), landscape painter
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Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719), flower painter
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Anna Blume (1937–2020), photographer
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Bärbel Bohley (1945–2010), artist, East German opposition figure
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Cosima von Bonin (born 1962), contemporary artist
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Paula Bonte (1840–1902), painter
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Madeleine Boschan (born 1979), sculptor
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Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813–c. 1858), photographer
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Pola Brändle (born 1980), collage artist
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Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979), contemporary artist
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Marianne Breslauer (1909–2001), photographer
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Dora Bromberger (1881–1942), painter
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Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl (1784–1844), pastellist
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Hede Bühl (born 1940), sculptor
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Elisabeth Büchsel (1867–1957), painter
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Andrea Büttner (born 1972), multi-medium artist
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Maria Caspar-Filser (1878–1968), painter
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Dorothea Chandelle (1784–1866), painter
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Suzanne Chodowiecka (1763–1819), painter
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Claricia (fl. c.1200), manuscript illuminator
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Penelope Cleyn (fl. 1668–1677), miniaturist
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Helene Cramer (1844–1916), painter
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Molly Cramer (1852–1936), painter
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Helga von Cramm (1840–1919), painter, illustrator and graphic artist
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Alice Creischer (born 1960), artist, writer and theorist
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Anna Dabis (1847–1927), sculptor
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Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), conceptual artist
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Gabriela Dauerer (born 1958), contemporary painter
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Marie Davids (1847–1905), painter
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Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski (1870–1935), portrait photographer
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Paula Deppe (1886–1922), painter, engraver and illustrator
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Selma Des Coudres (1883–1956), painter
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Christa Dichgans (1940–2018), painter
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Adelheid Dietrich (1827–1891), still life painter
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Minya Diez-Dührkoop (1873–1929), photographer
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Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706–1773), painter and engraver
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Jacqueline Diffring (1920–2020), sculptor
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Christel Drillbohrer (born 1956), painter, installation artist
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Sophie Dinglinger (1736–1791), painter
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Louise Droste-Roggemann (1865–1945), painter
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Inge Druckrey (born 1940), graphic designer and educator
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Tatjana Doll (born 1970), contemporary painter
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Dr. Gindi (born 1965), sculptor
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Louise Droste-Roggemann (1865–1945), painter
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Ruth Duckworth (1919–2009), German-American sculptor and ceramist
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Gertrude Fehr (1895–1996), photographer
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Anke Feuchtenberger (born 1963), painter, comics artist
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Adele von Finck (1879–1943), painter
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Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975), sculptor
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Maria Elektrine von Freyberg (1797–1847), painter
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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), avant-garde artist, poet
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Mathilde Freiin von Freytag-Loringhoven (1860–1941), painter, writer
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Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959), painter
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Caroline Friederike Friedrich (1749–1815), flower painter
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Katharina Fritsch (born 1956), sculptor
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Helene Funke (1869–1957), painter and graphic designer
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Edith Galliner (1914–2000), painter, potter
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Yishay Garbasz (born 1970), interdisciplinary artist
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Anna Rosina de Gasc (1713–1783), portrait painter
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Sylke von Gaza (born 1966), abstract painter
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Anna Margarethe Geiger (1783–1809), pastellist
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Senta Geißler (1902–2000), painter
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Isa Genzken (born 1948), contemporary artist
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Ida Gerhardi (1862–1927), painter
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Anna Gerresheim (1852–1921), painter, etcher
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Helga Goetze (1922–2008), embroiderer, poet, activist
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Hilde Goldschmidt (1897–1980), painter and printmaker
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Marie Goslich (1859–1936), photographer and journalist
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Sophia Goudstikker (1865–1924), Dutch-born German photographer and feminist
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Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743), painter
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Catrin G. Grosse (born 1964), painter, graphic designer and sculptor
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Katharina Grosse (born 1968), artist
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Rita Grosse-Ruyken (born 1948), contemporary artist
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Annelie Grund (born 1953), glass artist
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Sabina Grzimek (born 1942), sculptor
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Julia Gunther (born 1979), photographer and documentary cinematographer
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Lisel Haas (1898–1989), theatre photographer
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Ilse Häfner-Mode (1902–1973), German-Jewish artist
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Esther Haase (born 1966), photographer and film director
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Godela Habel (1929–2022), painter
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Sarah Haffner (1940–2018), German-British painter and writer
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Ilse Häfner-Mode (1902–1973), German-Jewish painter
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Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824–1902), portrait painter
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Marie Hager (1872–1947), painter
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Magda Hagstotz (1914–2001), abstract painter
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Henriette Hahn-Brinckmann (1862–1934), painter and lithographer
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Tina Haim-Wentscher (1887–1974), (aka Tina Haim-Wentcher), German-Australian sculptor
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Andrea Hanak (born 1969), painter
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Sandra Hastenteufel (born 1966), contemporary artist
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Iris Häussler (born 1971), German-born Canadian conceptual, installation artist
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Roswitha Hecke (born 1944), photographer
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Elise Neumann Hedinger (1854–1923), painter
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Susan Hefuna (born 1962), visual artist
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Marta Hegemann (1894–1970), avant-garde painter
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Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683–1757), artist and alchemist
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937–2020), painter
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Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), German-born Argentine photographer
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Carola Helbing-Erben, textile artist
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Amalia von Helvig (1776–1831), artist, writer, who moved to Sweden
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Ingrid Hermentin (born 1951), computer graphic artist
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Johanna Helena Herolt (1723–1868), botanical painter
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Charline von Heyl (born 1960), German-American painter
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Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956), photographer of naturism
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Eva Hesse (1936–1970), German-born American sculptor
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Vera Hilger (born 1971), painter
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Dora Hitz (1856–1924), painter
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Hannah Höch (1889–1978), avant-garde artist
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Sophie Hoechstetter (1873–1943), painter, poet
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Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000), photographer
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Candida Höfer (born 1944), photographer
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Margret Hofheinz-Döring (1910–1994), painter and graphic artist
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Bettina Hohls (born 1947), artist and designer
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Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen (1857–1934), painter
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Rebecca Horn (born 1944), installation artist
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Sabine Hornig (born 1964), photographer
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Maria Innocentia Hummel (1909–1946), nun, artist
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Irma Hünerfauth (1907–1998), painter, sculptor and object artist
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Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915–2009), sculptor
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Auguste Hüssener (1789–1877), engraver and miniaturist
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Walde Huth (1923–2011), photographer
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Amalie Kärcher (1819–1887), fruit and flower painter
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Henriette Agnete Kitty von Kaulbach (1900–1992), German-Dutch painter
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Johanna Keimeyer (born 1982), photographer, artist
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Maria Countess von Kalckreuth (1857–1897), painter
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Annette Kelm (born 1975), contemporary artist, photographer
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Marie von Keudell (1838–1918), painter
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Inge King (1915–2016), German-born Australian sculptor
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Astrid Kirchner (1938–2020), photographer, artist
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Mary Louisa Kirschner (1852–1931), painter, glass artist
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Johanna Kirsch (1856–1907), painter
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Anna Klein (1883–1941), painter
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Barbara Klemm (born 1939), press photographer
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Gabriele Koch (born 1948), studio potter
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Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), (aka Dora Stetter), landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter, printmaker
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Katrin Korfmann (born 1971), contemporary artist
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Emma Körner (1788–1815), painter
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Marianne Kraus (1765–1838), painter, travel writer
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Susanne Kriemann (born 1972), artist, photographer
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Magda Kröner (1854–1935), painter
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Monika Kropshofer (born 1952), photographer
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Christiane Kubrick (born 1932), actress, dancer, painter and singer
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Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographer, activist
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Marianne Kühn (1914–2005), politician and painter
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Susanne Kühn (born 1969), painter
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Marie Kundt (1870–1932), photographer and educator
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Marianne Kürzinger (1767–1809), history and genre painter
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Barbara Kussinger (born 1970), painter
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Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993), German-Swedish painter
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Eva Ursula Lange (1928–2020), German painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and ceramist
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Henni Lehmann (1862–1937), painter
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Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943), painter
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Margaret Leiteritz (1907–1976), painter
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Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (1883–1962), photographer
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Sabine Lepsius (1864–1942), portrait painter
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Esther Levine (born 1970), German-American photographer
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Sophie Ley (1849–1918), painter
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Emmy Lischke (1860–1919), painter
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Clara Lobedan (1840–1918), painter
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Elisabeth Loewe (1924–1996), Post-Expressionist painter
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Käthe Loewenthal (1878–1942), painter
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Christiane Löhr (born 1965), contemporary artist
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Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940), avant-garde artist
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Margarethe Loewe-Bethe (1859–1932), painter
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Käthe Loewenthal (1878–1942), painter
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Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (1622–1709), painter and abbess
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Auguste Ludwig (1834–1901), painter
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Almuth Lütkenhaus (1930–1996), sculptor
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Loretta Lux (born 1969), photographer
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Rut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967), photographer
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Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (1863–1923), painter
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Hilke MacIntyre, contemporary ceramist
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Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (1886–1930), portrait painter
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Eva de Maizière (1915–2003), artist, sculptor and cellist
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Melanie Manchot (born 1966), photographer and installation artist
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Jeanne Mandello (1907–2001), photographer
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Henriette Manigk (born 1968), painter
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Maria Marc (1876–1953), painter, textile artist
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Hedwig Marquardt (1884–1969), ceramist and painter
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Therese Maron (1725–1806), painter
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Ellen Marx (born 1939), artist and author
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Toni Mau (1917–1981), painter, graphic artist and educator
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Susanna Mayr (1600–1674), Baroque painter
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Josephine Meckseper (fl. 1990s), contemporary artist
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Ada Mee (born 1946), multi-media artist
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Else Meidner (1901–1987), painter
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Anna Maria Mengs (1751–1792), painter
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Julia Charlotte Mengs (c.1730–c.1806), painter
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Anne Menke (born 1967), German-American photographer
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Adelheid Mers (born 1960), multi-disciplinary artist
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Immeke Mitscherlich (1899–1985), textile artist
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Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), Expressionist painter
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Una H. Moehrke (born 1953), painter
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Marg Moll (1884–1977), sculptor, painter and writer
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Sabine Moritz (born 1969), painter and graphic designer
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Hedda Morrison (1908–1991), photographer
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Auguste Müller (1847–1930), woodcarver, toymaker
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Karin Apollonia Müller (born 1963), contemporary artist
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Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), Expressionist painter
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Frédérique Émilie Auguste O'Connell (1823–1885), painter
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Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir (1887–1944), German sculptor, painter, and graphic artist
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Méret Oppenheim (1913–1985), German-born Swiss Surrealist artist, photographer
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Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), photographer
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Li Osborne (1883–1968), German-born British photographer and sculptor
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Anna Kerstin Otto (born 1972), painter
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Justine Otto (born 1974), painter
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Hermine Overbeck-Rohte (1869–1937), landscape painter
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Cornelia Paczka-Wagner (1864–after 1930), painter
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Amalia Pachelbel (1688–1723), painter and engraver
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Louise Pagenkopf (1856–1922), landscape painter
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Margarete Palz (born 1937), textile artist
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Jeannette Papin (1761–1835), painter
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Helga Paris (1938–2024), photographer
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Lina von Perbandt (1836–1884), landscape painter
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Anna Peters (1843–1926), landscape and flower painter
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Lilo Peters (1913–2001), painter and sculptor
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Pietronella Peters (1848–1924), portrait painter
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Carlotta Ida Popert (1848–1923), German-Italian watercolourist, etcher
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Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985), sculptor
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Bettina Pousttchi (born 1971), German-Iranian sculptor, photographer, filmmaker
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Maria Katharina Prestel (1747–1794), painter, etcher
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Hermione von Preuschen (1854–1918), painter, writer
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Emilie Preyer (1849–1930), painter
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Barbara Probst (born 1964), German-American photographer
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Anne-Katrin Purkiss (born 1959), photographer
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Doramaria Purschian (1890–1972), Expressionist painter
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Karin Putsch-Grassi (born 1960), potter
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Doris Raab (1851–1933), print-maker
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Erna Raabe (1882–1938), painter
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Dorothee Raetsch (born 1940), sculptor, graphic artist
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Katja Rahlwes (born 1967), fashion photographer
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Katharina Rapp (born 1948), painter
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Sandra Rauch (born 1967), painter
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Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967), abstract artist, co-founder of the
Guggenheim Museum
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Anita Rée (1885–1933), avant-garde painter
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Margaretha Reichardt (1907–1984), textile designer and former
Bauhaus student
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Margarethe von Reinken (1877–1962), painter
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Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964), photographer
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Christophine Reinwald (1757–1847), painter
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Regina Relang (1906–1989), fashion photographer
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Jack von Reppert-Bismarck (1903–1971), painter
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Elisabeth Reuter (1853–1903), painter
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Ottilie Reylaender (1882–1965), painter
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Evelyn Richter (1930–2021), photographer
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Ursula Richter (1886–1946), theatre photographer
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Frieda Riess (1890–c. 1955), portrait photographer
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Adele Röder (born 1980), painter
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Emy Roeder (1890–1971), sculptor
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Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937), painter
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Rita Rohlfing (born 1964), painter, photographer and installation artist
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Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997), photographer
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Jelka Rosen (1868–1935), painter
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Ulla Irina Rossek (born 1978), painter
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Valeska Röver (1849–1931), painter
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Julika Rudelius (born 1968), video and performance artist
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Lessie Sachs (1897–1942), poet and artist
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Adelaïde Salles-Wagner (1825–1890), painter active in France
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Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943), painter
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Christa Sammler (born 1932), sculptor
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Eva Sandberg-Xiao (1911–2001), photographer
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Agnes Sander-Plump (1888–1980), painter
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Amalia von Schattenhofer (1763–1840), art collector and amateur painter
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Silke Schatz (born 1967), sculptor, installation artist
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Auguste Schepp (1846–1905), painter
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Galka Scheyer (1889–1945), German-American painter, art collector and teacher
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Ingrid Schmeck (born 1944), graphic artist
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Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (1920–2021), painter
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Julia Schmidt (born 1976), painter
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Thyra Schmidt (born 1974), visual artist
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Henriette Schneider (1747–1812), painter
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Sophie Schneider (1866–1942), painter
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Stefanie Schneider (born 1968), photographer
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Doris Schoettler-Boll (1945–2015), artist, curator and teacher
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Eva Schorr (1927–2016), painter and composer
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Bertha Schrader (1845–1920), painter
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Martina Schradi (born 1972), writer, cartoonist
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Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann (1904–1995), painter
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Käthe Schuftan (1899–1958), painter and drafter
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Anna Schuleit Haber (born 1974), visual artist
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938), photographer
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Martina Schumacher (born 1972), conceptual artist
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Eva Schulze-Knabe (1907–1976), painter and graphic artist, resistance fighter
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Regine Schumann (born 1961), contemporary painter and installation artist
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Else Seifert (1879–1968), architectural photographer
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Else Sehrig-Vehling (1897–1994), Expressionist painter
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Louise Seidler (1786–1866), painter, custodian
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Friederike Sieburg (1761–1835), pastellist
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Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899–1944), designer
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Katharina Sieverding (born 1944), photographer
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Pola Sieverding (born 1981), photographer and video artist
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Clara Siewert (1862–1945), Symbolist painter
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Ludovike Simanowiz (1759–1827), portrait painter
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Zuzanna Skiba (born 1968), painter
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Maria Slavona (1865–1931), Impressionist painter
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Kiki Smith (born 1954), West German-born American sculptor, printmaker, drawer
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Annegret Soltau (born 1946), visual artist
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Margarethe Sömmering (1768–1802), painter
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Kathrin Sonntag (born 1981), visual artist
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Catharina Sperling-Heckel (1699–1741), painter and etcher
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Gertrud Staats (1859–1938), painter
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Pia Stadthäuser (born 1959), sculptor
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Jonny Star (born 1964), sculptor, installation artist
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Birgit Stauch (born 1961), contemporary sculptor
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Marél von Steinling (born 1933), painter
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Hito Steyerl (born 1966), filmmaker, visual artist and writer
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Dora Stock (1760–1832), painter
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Minna Stocks (1846–1928), painter
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Gunta Stölzl (1897–1983), textile artist
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Madeleine Strindberg (born 1955), painter
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Helene Marie Stromeyer (1834–1924), painter
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Erika Stürmer-Alex (born 1938), painter
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Gerda Taro (1910–1937), war photographer
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Henriette-Félicité Tassaert (1766–1818), painter
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Ebba Tesdorpf (1851–1920), illustrator and painter
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782), Rococo painter
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Ulrike Theusner (born 1982), printmaker
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Elsa Thiemann (1910–1981), photographer
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Amalie Tischbein (1757–1839), painter and etcher
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Elisabeth Treskow (1898–1992), goldsmith
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Catharina Treu (1743–1811), still life painter
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Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952), contemporary artist
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Alice Trübner (1875–1916), painter
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Susanne Tunn (born 1958), sculptor
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Grete Waldau (born 1868), architectural painter, mural artist
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Emmi Walther (1860–1936), painter
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Maria Dorothea Wagner (1719–1792), painter
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Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964), painter
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Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815–1901), Germany's first professional female photographer with a studio in
Leipzig from 1843
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Hanna Weil (1921–2011), painter
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Gisela Weimann (born 1943), visual artist, feminist
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Kaethe Katrin Wenzel (born 1972), contemporary artist
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Anna Maria Werner (1688–1753), painter
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Anna Werner (born 1941), photographer
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Clara Westhoff (1878–1954), sculptor
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Brigitta Westphal (born 1944), painter
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Marianne Wex (born 1937), feminist photographer
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Eva Janina Wieczorek (born 1951), painter
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Anne Winterer (1894–1938), photographer
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Lilli Wislicenus (1872–1939), sculptor
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Herma Auguste Wittstock (born 1977), performance artist
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Karla Woisnitza (born 1952), fresco painter
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Ursula Wolff Schneider (1906–1977), photographer and photojournalist
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Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944), painter
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Emmy Worringer (1878–1961), avant-garde artist
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