Barbara Beuys

The camp commander announces the death sentence. At that very moment, the prisoner Mala Zimetbaum cuts her wrists with a razor blade. An SS man grabs her by the arm. Mala tears herself free,...

She is considered one of the greatest movie stars of all times: Asta Nielsen (1881-1972). The Danish actress became the global sensation of the silent film era with her first movie, The Abyss (1910), establishing film as a new art form. She embodied the new, modern woman, enthralling audiences with a brilliant mixture of comedy and eroticism.

Berlin became her home, she...

In an exciting and knowledgeable way, Barbara Beuys’s new book recounts the extraordinary life of a woman in the 17th century who was a confident artist pioneering in the natural sciences. Her passion for caterpillars and their transformation into butterflies led her to the tropical rainforests of South America in 1699.

With her groundbreaking work The...

In Scandinavia, Helene Schjerfbeck is praised as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century and internationally her long overdue recognition grows steadily. Barbara Beuys describes the dramatic and tumultuous life of the painter – in which more than a thousand pictures arise: self-portraits, still lives, landscapes, and portraits of modern young women above...

She had only ever sold two paintings when she died in 1907, a few days after the birth of her daughter, as the result of an embolism. Paula Modersohn-Becker died young, at just thirty-one. But she...