Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke (née Gerhardt; 11 May 1888 – 17 March 1978) was a German writer who focused on memoirs of her time as the wife of the expressionist painter August Macke, who had portrayed her more than 200 times.[1] He died in World War I. Later, she lived in Berlin with her second husband, Lothar Erdmann, who died in a concentration camp during World War II. She saved Macke's paintings and copies of his letters by moving them from her house in Berlin before it was bombed in 1943.
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![]() August Macke and Elisabeth Gerhardt photographed in Bonn during 1908 | |
Born | Elisabeth Gerhardt (1888-05-11)11 May 1888 Bonn, German Empire |
Died | 17 March 1978(1978-03-17) (aged 89) Berlin, Germany |
Other names | Elisabeth Macke |
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