#Gertrud Kauders

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9 Women Artists lost during the Holocaust #RemembranceDay

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Fearful that the occupying Nazi forces in Prague could confiscate a lifetime's worth of artwork, Jewish painter Gertrud Kauders decided in 1939 to hide her vast array of paintings and drawings.

Nearly 80 years later, in the summer of 2018, Michal Ulvr was leading a demolition team tearing down a decrepit house south of Prague when "about 30 paintings tumbled out and fell onto my head," he told RFE/RL.

As the day wore on, the crew turned up more stashes of strikingly beautiful artwork as they dismantled the house -- some were under floorboards, others behind walls. By the end of the day some 700 paintings and sketches lay out in the open on the worksite as summer rain clouds gathered over Prague.

When Jakub Sedlacek, the owner of the house, was alerted to the strange discovery, he realized immediately what had been uncovered. Sedlacek had been raised on stories of exquisite art hidden inside the family home he recently inherited. A close inspection of the canvases confirmed the family legend was real -- many of the paintings were signed "Gertrud Kauders."

Kauders was born in 1883 in Prague, one of two children in a well-to-do Jewish home. After the Nazis rose to power in neighboring Germany and began a step-by-step takeover of Czechoslovakia, most of Kauders' family fled the country and urged her to do the same. But Kauders, whose first language was German, refused to believe the Nazis would hurt someone as harmless as her and she chose to stay.

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The Rediscovered Art Of Gertrud Kauders

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #906

first posted in facebook november 15, 2020

gertrud kauders -- "untitled" [i.e., girl with doll] (ca. 1930s?)

"after the nazis rose to power in neighboring germany and began a step-by-step takeover of czechoslovakia, most of kauders' family fled the country and urged her to do the same. but kauders, whose first language was german, refused to believe the nazis would hurt someone as harmless as her and she chose to stay" ... dana katharina vaskova

"people call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall' you thought they were all kidding you" ... bob dylan

"shortly before she was murdered in a nazi death camp, jewish artist gertrud kauders hid around 700 paintings and sketches in the walls and ceilings of the prague house of her close friend natalie jahudkova, a russian emigrant to czechoslovakia" ... dana katharina vaskova

"were you frightened, little one?" ... gertrud kauders

"do you all think i'm kiddin' you?" ... al janik

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Gertrud Kauders

The Rediscovered Art Of Gertrud Kauders

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Gertrude Kauders 1883 PRAGUE - 1942 Poland 

Jewish artist who hid a lifetimes worth of work (700 paintings) within the walls of a house in prague. Died in 1942 in a concentration camp in Poland. 

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)

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https://www.rferl.org/a/the-art-of-gertrud-kauders-a-czechoslovakian-jewish-artist-murdered-by-the-nazis/30857717.html?fbclid=IwAR29i5zsGq4Jy1UTvupYLYRqNBrNknpcThyHqyXUt0Fem8p5oQsI9gRsMJQ

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Artist Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp).

Hidden From The Nazis, Murdered Jewish Artist’s Trove Of Paintings Discovered In Prague House. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, September 25, 2020, by Amos Chapple and Dana-Katharina Vašková.)

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)

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Gertrud Kauders (1883, Prague – 1942, Majdanek concentration camp)