Elfriede Lohse Wächtler

Place: Dresden

Born: 1899

Death: 1940

Biography:

Elfriede Lohse Wächtler (born Anna Frieda Wächtler 4 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich. She was murdered in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of N...