1. Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke died in World War I Later, she lived in Berlin with her second husband, Lothar Erdmann, who died in a concentration camp during World War II.
11 Facts About Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke saved Macke's paintings and copies of his letters by moving them from her house in Berlin before it was bombed in 1943.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke's uncle was German industrialist and art collector Bernhard Koehler.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke met August Macke in 1903, when he was 16.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke learned French, English, Italian, music, home economics, and gardening.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke's husband was arrested in 1939 under the Nazi regime and died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke saved Macke's paintings by moving them from the house in Berlin.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke returned to Bonn in 1948, where she lived in a small apartment in August Macke's atelier until 1976.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke took part in the cultural life of the town and published her memoirs as a book in 1962.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke wrote memoirs in the 1970s of meetings with artists, including Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Hindemith, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul and Lily Klee, the Marcs, Paul Magar, Herwarth Walden, and Mary Wigman.
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Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke spent her last two years with her children in Berlin, where she died in 1978 at the age of 89.