Gertrude Sandmann Explained

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 Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 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 .

Further reading

• Book: Afken . Janin . Queer Jewish Lives Between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine . 2021 . transcript Verlag . 978-3-8394-5332-2 . en . Myth of the Homosexual Subculture in Weimar Germany? Thoughts on Lesbian Circumstances in the 1920s.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Potsdam Museum hat den Nachlass der Künstlerin Gertrude Sandmann erworben . Potsdam Museum . 1 June 2019 . de . 18 December 2015.
2. Web site: Gertrude Sandmann, Emigrantin I  Berlinische Galerie Ihr Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin . www.berlinischegalerie.de . 1 June 2019 . 26 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190426221159/https://www.berlinischegalerie.de/app-wien-berlin/sammlung/gertrude-sandmann-emigrantin-i/ . dead .