Gertrude Sandmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German painter
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Gertrude Sandmann
- Gertrude Sandmann (16 November 1893 – 6 January 1981) was a German artist and Holocaust survivor.Born into a wealthy German-Jewish family, Sandmann studied at the Association of Berlin Artists 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.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 Potsdam Museum.
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