Herta Wescher

Herta Wescher (née Herta Kauert; 1899 – March 3, 1971) was a German art critic and art historian, who worked in France. She specialized in the study of modern art, and was an authority of collage art. She attended the lyceum, and also took private classes; in 1917 she graduated from high school in Bonn. She helped organize the Free Artists' Association, of which the art historians Sabine Spiro and Paul Westheim were also members.

She was interned in 1940 after France entered World War II. Wescher and her husband fled to Basel, Switzerland in 1942. After the end of the war, Wescher separated from her husband in 1945 and returned to Paris.

As a freelance journalist in the early 1950s in Paris, she wrote for the art magazine, "Art d'aujourd'hui". In c. 1953, she helped found the magazine "Cimaise".