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Galerie Knoell presents a selection of works by important Swiss artists Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), Verena Loewensberg (1912–1986) and Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985).

The three women each developed their very own, unique artistic voice and style and individually contributed to Switzerland and Europe’s artistic landscape well beyond their own time, during which they were often undervalued or misunderstood.

In 1935 Verena Loewensberg arrived in Paris to study at the Académie Moderne. Instead of visiting classes of Auguste Herbin, she quickly got in touch with Theo van Doesburg and Georges …