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Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]
The BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit (German for BDM Faith and Beauty Society) was founded in 1938 to serve as a tie-in between the work of the League of German Girls (BDM) and that of the National Socialist Women's League. Membership was voluntary and open to girls aged 17 to 21.
Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956) was a German photographer. She is regarded as the most important female photographer of the German naturism.This mainly was during the 1920s, in which the Freikörperkultur (Free Body Culture) was popular within Germany, before the Nazi Party assumed power (1930s), promptly prohibiting it.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: German This category exists only as a container for other categories of German women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Woman in the Black Forest, around 1900 Ludovico Wolfgang Hart, Three Girls of Gutach, 1864 Théodore Valerio, Couple of Hornberg, 1841. A Bollenhut (German: [ˈbɔlənˌhuːt], literally "ball-hat") is a formal headdress with distinctive woollen pompoms worn since c. 1750 by Protestant women as part of their folk costume or Tracht in the three adjoining Black Forest villages of Gutach ...
Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815–1901), Germany's first professional female photographer with a studio in Leipzig from 1843; Hanna Weil (1921–2011), painter; Gisela Weimann (born 1943), visual artist, feminist; Kaethe Katrin Wenzel (born 1972), contemporary artist; Anna Maria Werner (1688–1753), painter; Anna Werner (born 1941), photographer
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813 – after 1858), possibly the first woman in Germany to have made daguerreotypes; Marianne Breslauer (1909–2001), active in the early 1930s; Käthe Buchler (1876–1930), documented WWI in Braunschweig, Germany; Traude Bührmann (born 1942), writer, journalist, photographer