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Lotte Laserstein

Lotte Laserstein (1898 - 1993) was active/lived in Sweden, Germany.  Lotte Laserstein is known for Portrait, landscape and rural scene painting and drawing, nudes, realism.

Lotte Laserstein was born in East Germany; her father died in 1902 and she was raised by her mother and grandmother in what is now Gdansk and Berlin. In 1927, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, one of the first female students, and was immediately successful. She quickly became known on the city's art scene for her skilled portrait painting, especially of young modern women of the 1920s.

When the Nazis came and took power in 1933, her promising career was cut short when, in accordance with the ideology of the time, she was categorized as 3/4 Jewish (her grandparents were Jewish but her own parents were not). As a result, she was increasingly excluded from the art scene. However, an invitation to exhibit at Galerie Moderne in Stockholm in 1937 opened up an opportunity for her to leave her home country.

Laserstein traveled from Berlin in 1937 and managed to ship the majority of her works to Stockholm. The exhibition took place and she was able t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7697 characters.]  Artist bio

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