Herta Wescher

[2] After graduation, her husband received a position at the Berlin State Museums and she worked there on a voluntary basis in the graphics department under the direction of Max J.

[2] Through Friedländer, she was given the opportunity to work on the catalog raisonné of Peter Paul Rubens together with the art historian Ludwig Burchard.

[2] She was also involved in the contemporary art scene in Berlin, influenced by Franz Roh, Curt Glaser, Siegried Curjel and the Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy.

[2] As supporters of the Weimar Republic and the Bauhaus school, the Weschers' views were in direct contrast to the conservative art ideology of National Socialism (or Nazisim).

[3] She helped organize the Free Artists' Association, of which the art historians Sabine Spiro and Paul Westheim were also members.