Michèle Seehafer

Michèle Seehafer is an art historian and currently postdoctoral fellow at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and at the Museum of National History in Denmark.

Waser and Merian – two trailblazing female artists of the Baroque era

Michèle Seehafer 09.01.2023 The Baroque period saw increasing numbers of female artists begin to question the social structures of the age. The stories of Anna Waser and Maria Sibylla Merian demonstrate how these female artists fully bore comparison with their male contemporaries.

Anna Waser and Maria Sibylla Merian are among the foremost artists of the Baroque period. Illustrations from Johann Caspar Füssli's compendium of the best artists in Switzerland from 1769–1779.