Ida Gerhardi – “… and everyone was dancing!”

In 1903 Ida Gerhardi started doing something no woman painter had done before her: she went alone into the dance halls and bars of Paris and painted them. Around 40 paintings and drawings, mostly from around 1905, make up this show, from a couple dancing beside their musician at the Bal Bullier to a run of dive-bar scenes.

Gerhardi (1862 to 1927) lived in Paris from 1891, made her name as a portraitist and a fixer for other German artists, then was largely forgotten after illness sent her home in 1913. This is her first Berlin show in 25 years. You also get her self-portraits, the subject she shared with Kollwitz, who became her friend in Paris in 1904. In a museum built around Kollwitz's prints of hunger and war, this is the show where everyone is dancing.

Entry is €8, €5 reduced and free under 18, daily 11:00 to 18:00, and the building is barrier-free. A 70-page booklet costs €10. It closes on 1 November.