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Dora Bromberger – Farewell – around 1930
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This watercolor was painted by the
Bremen artist Dora Bromberger,
sold by a dealer near Liverpool. The
label from the framing company
suggests that it arrived in England
before 1940. The Bromberger family
had good contacts in England, and
several relatives fled to the island
to escape the Nazis. Dora's brother
Siegfried, who emigrated to Cuba via
England in 1939, never understood
why his two sisters did not take
advantage of this opportunity.
The second artist we are commemorating today is the
painter and graphic artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus.
Originally from Lithuania, she lived in Munich and
Berlin before being forced to flee to Paris to escape
the Nazis. She was multilingual and illustrated many
books. The piece we found in an antiquarian bookstore in
Bayreuth is a signed lithograph featuring a
self-portrait.
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was born in 1888 in Telsiai,
Lithuania, which was then part
of the Russian Empire. She was a
prominent Jewish artist of the
Classical Modernism movement. In
Weimar Republic-era Berlin, she
gained recognition primarily for
her illustrations of Jewish
children's books, as well as
works by well-known authors,
such as Charles Dickens.
Following the suicide of her
husband and her flight from
Berlin to exile in Paris in
1933, she was arrested in her
apartment in 1942 and deported
to the Auschwitz extermination
camp, where she was murdered
upon arrival. A large portion of
her work has been considered
lost since the Nazi era.
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Rahel Szalit-Marcus c. 1930
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Dora Bromberger c. 1920
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was born in 1881 in Bremen. She completed her artistic
training in Munich and Paris, where she developed her
characteristic style of moderate Expressionism. As one
of the most well-known Bremen painters of her time, she
was firmly established in the regional art scene.
Despite her conversion to the Protestant faith in
1888, she was systematically forced out of public
artistic life after 1933 due to her Jewish heritage.
In 1941, Dora Bromberger was deported to the Minsk
Ghetto along with her sister Henriette, and in 1942,
she was murdered at the Maly Trostinez extermination
camp. A large portion of her oeuvre was lost as a
result of the 'Aryanization' of her family home.
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Lilli Fischel and the Karlsruhe Kunsthalle was
originally intended to be the only topic of the
month. However, during our research, questions arose
that prompted us to search through the primary
sources at the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.
In the process, we discovered documents that now
provide enough material for three newsletters.
Lilli Fischel was the first woman in Germany to
direct a State Art Gallery. As a woman, a person of
'mixed Jewish descent' (Halbjüdin), and an advocate
for Modern Art, she provided her critics with plenty
of room for attack. Her life was a constant struggle,
which we will now report on in three parts:
1. The struggle for professional recognition
2. The struggle for modern art
3. The struggle for restitution
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Lilli Fischel c. 1928
Foto Lucia Moholy © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
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Looking ahead:
In January, a signed etching by Auschwitz survivor David
Friedmann surfaced in a second-hand shop in the Harz Mountains.
His daughter Miriam, who lives in New York, has donated it to
our collection. We will report on this in our next newsletter.
The Topic of the Month for March will be: Lilli Fischel – Part
2: "The Struggle for Modern Art". |
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Dr. Beatrix Früh
Dipl.-W. Ing. Stefan Schmitt
Das Virtuelle Museum in Karlsruhe
August-Bebel-Straße 34
D-76187 Karlsruhe
Tel: +49 721 75 69 300
Email: info@lostgen.art
Lost Generation Art © 2026
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