About Sophie Blum-Lazarus
Lived 1867 – 1944 (aged 77). Sophie Blum-Lazarus was a French painter, pastellist and textile artist.
Sophie Blum-Lazarus (; 15 July 1867 – 5 August 1944) was a French-Jewish painter and pastellist of German origin. She was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
Life Born in 1867 in Stuttgart to a wealthy Jewish family, Blum-Lazarus later moved to Frankfurt. She studied painting at the Städelschule and later entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where she made copies of works by classical painters. In 2005, her artwork was posthumously displayed at a Musée du Montparnasse exhibition dedicated to artists deported by the Nazis.
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Sophie Blum-Lazarus was born on 15 July 1867 in Stuttgart.
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Sophie Blum-Lazarus died on 31 July 1944 in Auschwitz.
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Sophie Blum-Lazarus was a painter, pastellist and textile artist.
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Sophie Blum-Lazarus was French.
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