Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899-1940)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/198580
- Name (English)
- Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
- Short name
- Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
- Year of birth
- 1899
- Year of death
- 1940
- Short Description
- "Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (born Anna Frieda Wächtler; 4 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, in Nazi Germany. She was murdered in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany. Since 2000, a memorial center for the T4 program in the house commemorates her life and work in a permanent exhibition." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.03.2022)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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Grafik "Freudeninsel der Toten"
Handcolorierte Lithografie...
Object information
Image: Museum für Sepulkralkultur - CC BY
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