During her lifetime, Ottilie W. Roederstein (1859 – 1937) was a successful and independent painter whose portraits and still lifes were highly regarded in Switzerland and Germany but who also, from 1883 onwards, showed her paintings to great acclaim in Paris.

Accompanying programme
The female artist as profession – then and now
Podium discussion in German with Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza and Daniel Hauser of RELAX, Rachel Mader (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Art & Design) and Corinne Linda Sotzek (Ernst Göhner Foundation); moderator: Sandra Gianfreda (curator). Thursday, 28 January, 2021 at 6.30 p.m.
‘Et les artistes femmes ?
Exposition, diffusion, digitalisation’ A talk in French by Camille Morineau, director of AWARE, Paris. In association with the Alliance Française in Zurich and the Embassy of France in Switzerland. Thursday, 8 April at 6.30 p.m.
‘Ich darf sagen, alles war schön.’
Ottilie W. Roederstein and Sigismund Righini – excerpts from a friendshipA conversation in German between Kathrin Frauenfelder (Stiftung Righini | Fries, Zurich) and Sandra Gianfreda (curator), with a reading by Ingo Ospelt (actor). Wednesday 3 March at 6.30 p.m.
‘Mein Hans! – Deine Tilly’
Ottilie W. Roederstein, Elisabeth H. Winterhalter and other female couples in around 1900A talk in German by Bianca Walther, freelance historian, Berlin. Wednesday, 17 March 2021 at 6.30 p.m.
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