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Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, DE

2012

Berlinische Galerie

Gertrude Sandmann, a Berlin-born artist who trained in Berlin and Munich, primarily depicted women. She used drawing as a medium for intimate portraits and rapidly sketched nudes. Sandmann was persecuted by the Nazi regime because of her Jewish roots. She escaped deportation from 1942 by hiding in friends’ homes. After the war she took up her art again and in the 1970 s she was active in the queer feminist group “L74” (Lesbos 1974). In 2014 a substantial number of Sandmann’s works were donated to the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the Berlinische Galerie.