Perse, Crossing Borders - Travelling Women Artists in the 1800s

Crossing Borders tells the story of pioneering women artists - Nordics, Baltic Germans, Poles and Germans - who studied and worked in Germany in the 1800s. There is a particular focus on the contacts and social networks created by these artists in Dresden, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Munich, Weimar and Berlin. Trips to Italy by some artists form a side path. Cities in present-day Germany were seen as centres of art, culture and science, while the Nordic countries, the Baltic states and Poland were...