Gertrude Sandmann

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Gertrude Sandmann (16 November 1893 – 6 January 1981) was a German artist and Holocaust survivor.[1]

Born into a wealthy German-Jewish family, Sandmann studied at the and had private tutelage from Käthe Kollwitz. In 1935 she was banned from practicing her profession due to the Nuremberg Laws. Given a deportation order in 1942, she ignored it, faked her own suicide, and hid with friends in Berlin until the end of the war. She lived in an apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg until the end of her life.[2]

She was a lesbian and, after the war, worked to improve the rights and visibility of LGBT people. Much of her oeuvre is held by the  [de].[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Potsdam Museum hat den Nachlass der Künstlerin Gertrude Sandmann erworben". Potsdam Museum (in German). 18 December 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Gertrude Sandmann, Emigrantin I | Berlinische Galerie | Ihr Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin". www.berlinischegalerie.de. Retrieved 1 June 2019.

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