A female patient, woman with landscape, 1929.

While this haunting painting was not destroyed by the Nazis, its creator was. Elfriede Lohse-Wachtler was diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1932, was forcibly surgically sterilized in 1935, and euthanized in 1940 at Pirna-Sonnenstein.

Elfriede Lohse-Wachtler, The Sleepwalker.

woodcut, 1919

Kurt Lohse, Elfriede Lohse-Wachtler

1927