Olga Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer's father encouraged her pursuit of art and provided her with a studio, which was called the Gereonshaus, in his office building.

The Gereonsklub became a center of contemporary avant-garde art in the Rhineland, presenting Der Blaue Reiter, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Robert Delaunay and others for the first time in Cologne.

[1] Oppenheimer was the only female German artist who participated in the Armory Show, which opened in New York City in 1913 and traveled to Boston and Chicago.

She contributed a series of six woodcuts entitled Van Zanten's Happy Time, which was displayed in the same gallery as prints by Edvard Munch.

In 1918, she entered the Waltbreitbach Sanatorium, a psychiatric institution where she spent twenty years of her life.