| Sophie Blum-Lazarus | |
| Birth Date: | 15 July 1867 |
| Birth Place: | Stuttgart, Germany |
| Death Place: | Auschwitz concentration camp, German-occupied Poland |
| Occupation: | Painter, pastellist |
Sophie Blum-Lazarus (; 15 July 1867 – 5 August 1944) was a French-Jewish painter and pastellist of German origin. She was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
Born in 1867 in Stuttgart to a wealthy Jewish family, Blum-Lazarus later moved to Frankfurt.[1] [2] [3] She studied painting at the Städelschule and later entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where she made copies of works by classical painters. Around 1900, Blum-Lazarus married Jewish industrialist Daniel Blum and moved to Paris, where she became a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. She exhibited her work in 1909 and 1913 at the Salon d'Automne. After her husband's death in 1937, Blum-Lazarus became reclusive, and spent the next seven years living in a hotel. Having acquired French citizenship, she stayed in Paris during the Second World War. She was arrested on 8 July 1944 by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz three weeks later, where she soon died.[4] In 2005, her artwork was posthumously displayed at a Musée du Montparnasse exhibition dedicated to artists deported by the Nazis.