Lea Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist.
13 Facts About Lea Grundig
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Lea Grundig attended school locally between 1912 and 1922, while rejecting, even as a young girl, the family's religious orthodoxy.
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Lea Grundig went on to study at the city's Decorative Arts and Crafts Academy before progressing, in 1924, to the prestigious Saxon Art Academy: here she was admitted into the Masterclass of Otto Gussmann where fellow participants included Otto Griebel, Wilhelm Lachnit and Hans Grundig.
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Lea Grundig was a co-founder of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists.
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Lea Grundig nevertheless remained an active participant in resistance to the regime, as part of a group that included Kurt Magritz and Rudi Wetzel.
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Lea Grundig emigrated to Bratislava, then the capital of the still notionally independent Slovak Republic.
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Lea Grundig was again able to show her work legally: exhibitions of her work took place not just in Palestine where she was living but in the USA, France, South Africa and Great Britain.
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Lea Grundig contributed illustrations to "Volksstimme", the newspaper of the Palestinian party.
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In 1961 Lea Grundig became a full member of the East German Academy of Culture.
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Lea Grundig died in 1977 at sea on the Mediterranean, while traveling on a boat called "MS Volkerfreundschaft".
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Lea Grundig's body is buried at the Heidefriedhof in Dresden.
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Lea Grundig's written archive is held at the Arts Academy in Berlin.
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In 1972 Lea Grundig made a payment to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, establishing a fund for the Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation.