Maria Kipp was born in Weihsenbrunn, Bavaria in 1900. Her father was a Protestant minister, and her family’s associations with Bavarian royalty provided a relatively privileged upbringing. In 1906 her family moved to Gaub, and she enjoyed private tutoring in French, music and embroidery. She attended a household and horticulture school, and discovered her proclivities towards drawing and painting. In 1918, she enrolled at the Kunstgewerbschule (School of Applied Arts) in Munich. Though the women’s liberation movement in Germany had recently allowed equal admission to both men and women, there were lingering prejudices surrounding women’s enrollment in art schools, in particular. Gunta Stozl also... more.

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