Lesung & Gespräch: „Der Künstlerinnen-Klub“ – Olga Oppenheimer und Emmy Worringer

In the organizer's words:

On the occasion of her 140th birthday, the Cologne City Museum is commemorating the Cologne artist Olga Oppenheimer, an important pioneer of Expressionism in the Rhineland whose work and influence had long been forgotten, at OPEN SPACE. The First World War, personal strokes of fate and a mental illness ended her career early; in 1941 she became a victim of the National Socialist "euthanasia" crimes. It is only now that her work is receiving greater attention again.

On the occasion of OPEN SPACE, author Hanka Meves will read from her new novel "Der Künstlerinnen-Klub".

Cologne, 1911: Friends Emmy and Olga found an artists' club in the Gereonshaus, where van Gogh, Picasso, Macke and many other modern artists are celebrated - much to the displeasure of Cologne's conservative press. Between new beginnings and criticism, love and hostility, the women try to find their place in the art world.

The life stories of the painter Olga Oppenheimer and the exhibition organizer Emmy Worringer for the first time in a novel.