Luise Straus-Ernst

Luise Straus-Ernst (December 2, 1893 – d. early July 1944), also known as Louise Ernst, Louise Straus, Louise Ernst-Straus, or Luise Ernst-Straus, was a Jewish German art historian, writer, journalist, and artist, sometimes using an artistic Dadaist alias Armada von Duldgedalzen.[1][2]

She was the first wife of surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst and mother of painter Jimmy Ernst.[1]

Being a Jew, when the Nazis came to power, she emigrated to France in 1933. With the outbreak of World War II she could not emigrate further and found refuge in a hotel in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, together with a group of other Jewish emigrants. There she wrote her autobiography Nomadengut. The manuscript survived and was published in 2000. On April 28, 1944 she was arrested in a raid and on June 30 deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was killed on an unknown date.[1]

References
  1. Eva Weissweiler, Notre Dame de Dada. Luise Straus-Ernst – das dramatische Leben der ersten Frau von Max Ernst. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04894-0
  2. Ute Remus, Sollst je du sollst du Schwänin auf dem Ozean. Hommage an Lou Straus-Ernst ("Sollst je du sollst du Schwänin auf dem Ozean" is a line from the poem "Armada Duldgedalzen" (1920) by Johannes Theodor Baargeld) ("Should you ever be, should you be a swan on the ocean. A trubute to Luise Straus-Ernst), ISBN 3-932050-23-1
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