Hedwig Thun

Hedwig Thun (1892 – 1969) was a German painter and writer. She studied at the Bauhaus Dessau where her teachers included Wassily Kandinsky.[1]

In 2022 her work was the subject of a retrospective at Kunstforum Hermann Stenner entitled Hedwig Thun-Vom Bauhaus zum Informel. Eine Wiederentdeckung (From Bauhaus to Informel. A rediscovery).[2][3]

In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[4]

References

  1. "Unvergessen". Fresko Magazin. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  2. "Die Künstlerin Hedwig Thun – eine Wiederentdeckung". WDR TV (in German). 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  3. Jakubeit, Maja; Weise, Ann-Catherine (2022). Hedwig Thun Vom Bauhaus zum Informel. Eine Wiederentdeckung (1. Auflage ed.). München. ISBN 978-3777438849.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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