Hanna Bekker vom Rath

Hanna vom Rath, born in Frankfurt, Germany married the music critic Paul Bekker (1882–1937) in 1920 and they moved to Hofheim am Taunus, near Frankfurt/Main.

[1] Bekker vom Rath's portfolio includes "still lifes, portraits and landscapes, in styles ranging from Expressionism to New Objectivity".

Between 1940 and 1943 Bekker vom Rath organized secret exhibitions of works by the ostracized in her Berlin studio apartment on Regensburger Strasse.

[4] In the twenties she started collecting work of Expressionism, such as from Bruecke and Bauhaus : Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Adolf Hoelzel, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann and many more.

Her circle of artists and friends now included Ernst Wilhelm Nay, who settled in Hofheim from 1945 to 1952, the photographer Marta Hoepffner, who opened her private photography school there, and their teacher Willi Baumeister.