Hedwig Thun
{{Short description|German painter and writer}}
Hedwig Thun (1892 – 1969) was a German painter and writer. She studied at the Bauhaus Dessau where her teachers included Wassily Kandinsky.{{cite web |title=Unvergessen |url=https://www.fresko-magazin.de/unvergessen/ |website=Fresko Magazin |access-date=24 April 2023}}
In 2022 her work was the subject of a retrospective at Kunstforum Hermann Stenner entitled Hedwig Thun-Vom Bauhaus zum Informel. Eine Wiederentdeckung (From Bauhaus to Informel. A rediscovery).{{cite web |title=Die Künstlerin Hedwig Thun – eine Wiederentdeckung |url=https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/west-art/sendungen/hedwig-thun-100.html |website=WDR TV |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=de |date=26 April 2022}}{{cite book |title=Hedwig Thun Vom Bauhaus zum Informel. Eine Wiederentdeckung. |date=2022 |location=München |isbn=978-3777438849 |edition=1. Auflage |last1=Jakubeit |first1=Maja |last2=Weise |first2=Ann-Catherine }}
In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.{{cite web |title=Action, Gesture, Paint |url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/action-gesture-paint-women-and-global-abstraction-1940-70/ |website=Whitechapel Gallery |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=en}}