Interview with Gisela Breitling, founder of Das Verborgene Museum in Berlin

In this interview, Gisela Breitling discusses with Katy Deepwell her work on a number of different exhibition projects in Berlin and her publications in feminist art history. Gisela Breitling is a feminist artist and art historian (b.1939) who lives and works in Berlin and the interview discusses her most important book: Die Spuren des Schiffs in den Wellen - Eine Autobiographische Suche nach den Frauen in der Kunstgeschichte (1980) in its approach to recovering and rewriting a history of women artists through an autobiographical point of view. In the discussion the approach of both American and Germany art historians to documenting and recovering the history of women artists is discussed. Gisela Breiting also discusses how she founded Das Verborgene Museum (the Hidden Museum) in Berlin in 1986, with Evelyn Kuwertz, a museum project which specialises in recovering the history and presenting the work of German women artists affected by fascism from the 1930s, like Louise Rosler, Lidy von Lutzwitz, Marianne Bresslauer and many others.