Eva Schulze-Knabe

Eva Schulze-Knabe (11 May 1907 – 15 July 1976) was a German painter and graphic artist, as well as a resistance fighter against the Third Reich.

[1] Born in Pirna, Saxony, Eva Schulze-Knabe studied from 1924 to 1926 in Leipzig and from 1928 to 1932 at the Dresden Art Academy.

She was arrested again 1941 and in 1942, she and her husband were tried before the Volksgerichtshof at Münchner Platz in Dresden, where she was sentenced to life in labour prison (Zuchthaus).

Moreover, she oversaw the painting and drawing circle founded in 1848 at the Sachsenwerk (a factory) in Niedersedlitz (part of Dresden).

The Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands (Democratic Women's Association of Germany, an East German organization), Group 540, bore her name.

Memorial at the site of the Schulzes' studio