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It was high time for her idiosyncratic work to return to the public eye. The artist in question: painter and printmaker Bettina von Arnim, who made her comeback alongside her same-aged colleague Christa Dichgans in the German Pop exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. So they did exist, the female German Pop artists. Yet the label doesn't entirely fit for Bettina von Arnim, who sees herself as more of a “New Realist”. The Städel Museum for one did recognize her potential; one of her pieces, a painting titled “Hosenträger” executed in 1970, part of the same group of works as …