Bettina Baumgärtel

Bettina Baumgärtel (born 1957) is a German art historian who is head of the painting collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. She is a leading authority on the art of Angelica Kauffman and founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Project (AKRP), of which she is the director, in 1990.

Bettina Baumgärtel studied art history, archaeology and philosophy at the University of Bonn and the Free University of Berlin. In 1987 she completed her PhD with a dissertation on Angelica Kauffman and the conditions for feminine creativity in the painting of the eighteenth century, supervised by Eduard Trier in Bonn. She began to draw up a catalogue of Kauffman's works.

In 1990, Baumgärtel founded the Angelika Kauffmann Research Project (AKRP), of which she is the director.

Baumgärtel joined the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf in 1993 as an assistant curator. From 1994 to 2000 she was head of the department of prints and drawings, and since 2000 has been head of the painting collection. Provided by Wikipedia