Current Exhibition
Exhibition Opening
Opening of the exhibition
“You don’t give me enough credit for talent!”
Sunday, 23 November 2025 at 11:30
Welcome:
Bettina Wilhelm, equal opportunities officer in Bremen,
Priska Wethkamp, equal opportunities officer in Walsrode
Introduction:
Dr. Katja Pourshirazi, director of the Overbeck-Museum
Guided Tours
Sunday, 7 December
Sunday, 11 January
Sunday, 1 February
Sunday, 22 February
Sunday, 8 March (Finissage)
at 11.30 a.m.
Events
Lectures
“You don’t give me enough credit for talent!”
Life and work of the painter Hermine Overbeck-Rohte
with Katja Pourshirazi, director of the Overbeck-Museum
Wednesday, 21 January, 6 p.m.
“She almost paints like a man”
Female artists between tradition and emancipation
with Katja Pourshirazi, director of the Overbeck-Museum
Wednesday, 11 February, 6 p.m.
Birthday Party
Special guided tour on Hermine Overbeck-Rohtes 157th birthday
with Katja Pourshirazi, director of the Overbeck-Museum
Saturday, 24 January, 3 p.m.
Reading
“My dear, dear darling!”
Reading from the letters of Fritz and Hermine Overbeck
with Helle Rothe and Martin Mader
Sunday, 25 January, 5 p.m.
Thinking ín a museum
Short lecture with following discussion
About painting women and ladies academies
Saturday, 10 January, 3 p.m.
An artist’s marriage around 1900
Saturday, 31 Janury, 3 p.m.
Hermine Overbeck-Rohte as a photographer
Saturday, 21 February, 3 p.m.
Hermine Overbeck-Rohte came to Worpswede in 1896 to take painting lessons from Fritz Overbeck. Together with Marie Bock, she is the first female painter in the artists’ village. Just one year later, she married her teacher and from then on struggled to be both: an artist’s wife and a painter. During her first years of marriage, even after the birth of her first child, she created many of her most important works. She had her own studio and worked confidently alongside her husband. But a serious bout of tuberculosis put the brakes on her creativity.
The artist couple left Worpswede in 1905 and moved to Vegesack. Hermine Overbeck-Rohte painted her new surroundings, her own garden and numerous still lifes. However, her illness forced her to return to a long stay in a sanatorium. In 1909, her husband, the painter Fritz Overbeck, died unexpectedly at the age of just 39. Hermine Overbeck-Rohte became the executor of his estate and put her own work aside. It was not until 1991, more than 50 years after her death, that her work was exhibited in public for the first time.
The exhibition traces Hermine Overbeck-Rohte’s life on the basis of her works and numerous personal photographs and documents, while also shedding light on the situation of women painters around 1900. Social role expectations, limited educational opportunities and the first emancipation movement characterized this period.
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