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Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler

1899 - 1940

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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, in Nazi Germany. She became mentally ill and was murdered in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler has received more than 125,675 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler is the 1,669th most popular painter, the 4,376th most popular biography from Germany and the 145th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler ranks 1,669 out of 2,023. Before her are Karin Bergöö Larsson, Reinier Nooms, Frederic Remington, Kitty Lange Kielland, Georg von Rosen, and John Baldessari. After her are Constant Nieuwenhuys, Morris Louis, Jacob Maris, Eugene Lanceray, Daniel Seghers, and Valentine Hugo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler ranks 212. Before her are Max Petitpierre, Jafar Jabbarly, Mikhail Zharov, El-Registan, Wen Yiduo, and Hoagy Carmichael. After her are Otto E. Neugebauer, Eva Le Gallienne, Piero Dusio, James Wong Howe, May McAvoy, and Axel Bakunts. Among people deceased in 1940, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler ranks 138. Before her are Gheorghe Argeșanu, Einar Benediktsson, Otto Toeplitz, Agnes Ayres, Xhafer Ypi, and Paul Passy. After her are Saint-Pol-Roux, Piero Toscani, Arthur De Greef, Manuel González García, La Jana, and Alicia Boole Stott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler ranks 4,376 out of 7,253. Before her are Georg von Habsburg (1964), August Diehl (1976), Ludwig Knorr (1859), Matthias Schweighöfer (1981), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), and Richard Schorr (1867). After her are Else Krüger (1915), Maria Schrader (1965), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Berthold Delbrück (1842), and Rudi Assauer (1944).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler ranks 145. Before her are Georg Schrimpf (1889), Heinrich Campendonk (1889), Carl Joseph Begas (1794), Ferdinand Keller (1842), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805), and Georg Muche (1895). After her are Augustin Hirschvogel (1503), Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857), Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807), Carl Locher (1851), Heinrich Hofmann (1824), and Wilhelm Camphausen (1818).

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