Meret Oppenheim

Her contributions to the Surrealist Movement, and associations with many members of the group began well before she turned 20 years of age.

For many younger women artists Meret Oppenheim is a rôle-model, because of the way she lived her life and realized her creative freedom.

"For women, the implications are that they have to live their own female life as well as the female life that men project on them. Thus, they are woman times two. That’s too much."

Object. Paris 1936. Fur-covered cup

Förderverein Meret Oppenheim – Steinfrau aus Steinen
Meret Oppenheim ist in der kunstinteressierten Öffentlichkeit als Schweizer Künstlerin bekannt. Doch ihr Elternhaus stand während der prägenden Kinder- und Jugendzeit in der Gemeinde Steinen im Wiesental, wo der Vater als ungemein beliebter Arzt bis 1936 praktizierte…