Clara Fürst

Clara Fürst (15 February 1879 in Berlin – 1944 in Auschwitz) was a concert pianist.

[1] The Fürst family hailed originally from Hungary from where they had migrated to Germany and settled in Frankfurt/Oder.

In 1900, Clara Fürst met Lyonel Feininger in Berlin through her brother Edmund Fürst (1874–1955), who, like Lyonel Feininger had studied at the Berlin Art Academy for several years.

[3] While Edmund Fürst and his family emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and Lyonel Feininger, whose Cubism-based art was considered "degenerate" by the National Socialists, moved to the US in 1937, Clara Feininger stayed in Berlin.

On 10 January 1944 she was deported to Theresienstadt in the 99th transport to that concentration camp and from there to Auschwitz on 23 October 1944, where she was murdered.