Lina Franziska Fehrmann

Lina Franziska Fehrmann (born in Dresden on 11 October 1900; died 10 June 1950) was an artist model generally called Fränzi and associated with Die Brücke.

Life and Career Fränzi was the youngest of 15 children. Her father Oskar Emil, who died in 1921, was a locksmith's hand and later, in 1910, a machinist. Her mother, Alma Lina Clementine née Pazi (1860-1944), supported the family through her millinery shop in Dresden.

Fränzi had two illegitimate children by 1926. Kirchner noted that she was "very sad and gloomy because of her misfortune with the children." She married Alfred Fleischer, a printer, in 1931. They divorced in 1948. due to their fascination with her "unconsciously erotic" prepubescent body. She appears in works such as Heckel's Child (1909) and Child with Shell Necklace (1909), as well as Kirchner's Seated Girl (1910) and Heckel's Franzi Reclining (1910).