Ursula Benser, née Ursula Maria Luise Heuser (1915–2001) was a German painter and

draftsperson A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman or drafting technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or plans for m ...

. She worked in pastels,

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, and

gouache Gouache (; ), body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent (usually gum arabic or dextrin), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Gouache h ...

, on paper or canvas. She was born on 1 August 1915 in

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, to parents Mira (née Sohn-Rethel), and painter

Werner Heuser Werner Heuser (1880–1964) was a German painter, engraver, drafter, and professor. He had been a professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy) from 1926 until 1937, and he was removed from his position by the ...

. Her brother was Klaus Heinrich Heuser (1909–1994), her maternal grandfather was

Karl Rudolf Sohn Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn (21 July 1845, Düsseldorf – 29 August 1908, Düsseldorf) was a German portrait painter in the Academic style. Biography His father was the landscape painter, Karl Ferdinand Sohn. After graduating from the , he wa ...

, and her maternal great-grandfather was

Karl Ferdinand Sohn Karl Ferdinand Sohn (10 December 1805 in Berlin – 25 November 1867 in Cologne) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biography He was born in Berlin and started his studies at the age of eighteen under Wilhelm von Schad ...

. In 1936, she was married to photographer, Walther Benser.

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1915 births 2001 deaths Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Artists from Düsseldorf German women painters {{Germany-painter-stub German watercolourists