Olga Oppenheimer

Olga Oppenheimer (9 July 1886 – 11 February 1941) was a German Expressionist artist.

Education Oppenheimer trained under Paul Sérusier in Paris in 1909. Thereafter, she trained in private studios in Munich and Dachau. Oppenheimer's father encouraged her pursuit of art and provided her with a studio, which was called the Gereonshaus, in his office building.

Career Bildnis Bertha Oppenheim (1907)Oppenheimer was a co-founder of the Gereonsklub, an art school and major venue for modern art in Cologne, Germany, in 1911. The Gereonsklub became a center of contemporary avant-garde art in the Rhineland, presenting Der Blaue Reiter, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Robert Delaunay and others for the first time in Cologne. Oppenheimer's artistic career was brief, spanning the years 1907 to 1916. Only ten of her works survive, five of which are illustrations.

Oppenheimer's work was exhibited in the International Sonderbund in Cologne in 1912 along with the work of two other women artists, Marie Laurencin and Paula Modersohn-Becker. The next year, in 1913, she participated in an exhibition of Rhenish Expressionists at Walter Cohen's Bookstore, put together by August Macke, an influential Expressionist painter himself.

Personal life In 1913, Oppenheimer married Adolf Worringer, the brother of her friend Emmy Worringer. They had two sons and later divorced.