Dora Bromberger (1881 – 1942) was German artist who worked primarily with watercolor and oils, painting

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

landscapes. She was born into a family of musicians in

Bremen, Germany Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

, and attended art school beginning in 1912, first in Bremen, then in

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, and later in

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. Her work was shown internationally as well as in the

Kunsthalle Bremen The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (german: Kulturmeile). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded ...

and the 1928 exhibition ''Deutscher Kunst der Gegenwart'' (German Contemporary Art) in Nüremberg. Born into a Jewish family, she converted to the

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church in 1888. With the increasing influence of the

National Socialists Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

, she was continually harassed for her religious heritage. While her brother successfully emigrated to

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in 1939, Bromberger was unable to leave the country. The painter Elisabeth Noltenius remained a close friend and supported her during this time despite interrogations by the

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. In 1941 she was deported to

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

and sent to the

Maly Trostenets Maly Trostenets (Maly Trascianiec, , "Little Trostenets") is a village near Minsk in Belarus, formerly the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. During Nazi Germany's occupation of the area during World War II (when the Germans referred to it as ...

concentration camp, where she was murdered in 1942."Revolt, They Said". www.andreageyer.info.
Retrieved 2017-07-30.

References

External links

Die Bürgerstiftung für verfemte Künste mit der Sammlung Gerhard Schneider
, Solingen
museum-digital.de
Dora Bromberger: In einer südländischen Stadt, um 1918/23, Kunstmuseum Solingen {{DEFAULTSORT:Bromberger, Dora 1881 births 1942 deaths 20th-century German painters German Expressionist painters German women painters Jewish painters Modern painters German Jews who died in the Holocaust 20th-century German women People who died in Maly Trostenets extermination camp