

Künstlerinnen der Nationalgalerie vor 1919 (English title: Fighting for Visibility: Women Artists in the Nationalgalerie before 1919), which represented “the first extensive study dedicated to all the works in the Nationalgalerie produced by women painters and sculptors before 1919.” Moreover, a special issue of the French cultural magazine Télérama, published in 2021 and entitled Femmes artistes– ni vues ni connues ( Women Artists-Neither Visible nor Known), presented more than 20 international women artists from the 16th century until today. In 2019, for example, the National Gallery in Berlin organized the exhibition Kampf um Sichtbarkeit. This fact is most certainly owed to the great and seemingly growing number of projects, especially exhibitions, which are specifically dedicated to women artists, and which consider themselves to be contributing to raising awareness thereof. When it comes to the representation of women artists either in art historical research, in the media, or in exhibitions, the viewer and reader cannot avoid observing the inflationary use of the terms visibility and invisibility. 1_Women Artists’ In_Visibility-The Omnipresence of a Rather Old Phenomenon
