Ida Dehmel (born Ida Coblenz: 14 January 1870 - 29 September 1942) was a German lyric poet and muse, a feminist and a supporter of the arts.After 1933 she was persecuted on account of her Jewishness: in 1942, large scale deportations of Jews began from the city where she had made her home.
She committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
Source: Nicola Perscheid, Theodor und Jacob Hilsdorf, August Sander. Der rheinland-pfälzische Beitrag zur Geschichte der Photographie. Katalog Landesmuseum Mainz 1989. License: CC-PD-Mark PD-Art (PD-old-auto-expired) PD-old-100-expired