Bettina Baumgärtel (born 1957) is a German art historian who is head of the painting collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.
She is a leading authority on the art of Angelica Kauffman and founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Project (AKRP), of which she is the director, in 1990.
In 1987 she completed her PhD with a dissertation on Angelica Kauffman and the conditions for feminine creativity in the painting of the eighteenth century, supervised by Eduard Trier in Bonn.
[1] In 1990, Baumgärtel founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Project (AKRP), of which she is the director.
[1][2] Baumgärtel joined the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf in 1993 as an assistant curator.