The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna presents a major exhibition dedicated to the Flemish Baroque artist Michaelina Wautier. Featuring nearly all of her surviving works, including large-format historical paintings and portraits, the exhibition aims to reintroduce her as a significant Old Master alongside contemporaries like Rubens and Van Dyck.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is dedicating its major autumn exhibition to the outstanding Flemish Baroque artist Michaelina Wautier (c. 1620 – post 1682). This exhibition marks the first time almost all of Wautier's surviving works, including 29 paintings, are being exhibited in Vienna. It aims to position her as an equal to masters of her time, such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck. Throughout the centuries, Wautier's oeuvre, which includes large-format historical paintings, portraits, drawings, and allegories, was often misunderstood, forgotten, or misattributed to male colleagues. This exhibition seeks to bring her significant contributions to art history back into public view, with some works being shown for the very first time.