- Eva Schulze-Knabe
Eva Schulze-Knabe (
11 May 1907 -15 July 1976 ) was a German painter andgraphic artist , as well as a resistance fighter against theThird Reich .Born in
Pirna ,Saxony , Eva Schulze-Knabe studied from 1924 to 1926 inLeipzig and from 1928 to 1932 at the Dresden Art Academy. From 1929 she was a member of theartist s' group ASSO, and from 1931 she was a member of theCommunist Party of Germany (KPD). The same year, she married the artistFritz Schulze .She was arrested in 1933 and 1934 and confined to
Hohnstein concentration camp , and in 1941 and 1942, she was tried before the "Volksgerichtshof " at Münchner Platz in Dresden, where she was sentenced to life in labour prison ("Zuchthaus").After being freed from Waldheim labour prison in 1945 she lived as a
freelancer in Dresden and received in 1959 Dresden's Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize. Moreover, she oversaw the painting anddrawing circle founded in 1848 at the "Sachsenwerk" (afactory ) in Niedersedlitz (part of Dresden). The "Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands" (Democratic Women's Association of Germany, anEast German organization), Group 540, bore her name.She died in
Dresden in 1976.External links
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