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Clara Fürst (15 February 1879 in Berlin – 1944 in Auschwitz) was a concert pianist. Daughter of the painter :de:Gustav Gerson Fürst, Gustav Fürst she was the first wife of a German-American painter, and leading exponent of Expressionism, Lyonel Feininger. The Fürst family hailed originally from Hungary from where they had migrated to Germany and settled in Frankfurt/Oder. Personal life In 1900, Clara Fürst met Lyonel Feininger in Berlin through her brother Edmund Fürst (1874–1955), who, like Lyonel Feininger had studied at the Berlin Art Academy for several years. They married in 1901, and they had two daughters. In 1905 they separated. The first-born of these daughters was the photographer and artist :de:Lore Feininger, Eleonore Feininger''Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)'', New Yor/ref> (born 1901) who began her photographic activities in the studio of Karl Schenker in Berlin. The second daughter was Marianne, born in 1902. Clara Feininger had lived in Berlin-Steglitz, Bi ...
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A (; plural ) is a concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literal translation, Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'. The project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, Aktion T4, forced euthanasia, Nazi eugenics, eugenics, deportation to a Nazi concentration camp, concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. , 100,000 have been laid, making the project the world's largest decentralized memorial. The majority of commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti#The Holocaust, Sinti and Porajmos, Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), The Holocaust in Poland, Poles, Persecution o ...
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