Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Jewish-Austrian artist and educator who studied and then taught at the Weimer Bauhaus, working in textile design, printmaking, bookbinding, and typography.
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Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
1800s French painter known for her genre scenes.
Diamanda Galás
American musician and singer-songwriter who passionately campaigns for AIDS education and the rights of those affected.
Anna Ancher
Danish artist closely affiliated with the Skagen Painters, a vibrant artist’s community situated on the northern tip of Jutland, Denmark.
Helen Maybury Roe
Irish librarian and antiquary
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti
Significant figure in French Dadaism who made important contributions to Paris Dada and modernism as a painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsperson.
Soshana Afroyim
Austrian-Jewish artist known for her Modernist work who dedicated her life to art, traveling extensively to exhibit her creations worldwide.
Tatiana Markus
When Kyiv fell under German occupation in 1941, Markus joined the underground resistance. She carried out sabotage missions, often disguised as innocent gestures, like throwing a grenade hidden as a bouquet. Using a false identity as “Marcousisse,” she worked at an officer’s dining facility, poisoning SS officers’ meals and eliminating a valuable Gestapo informant.
Tove Jansson
Finnish author, artist, and illustrator whose most famous works are the children’s novels in the Moomin series
Margaretha van Godewijk
Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.