Kasia von Szadurska

Margarethe Casimirowna Schadursky-Sternberg, known as Kasia von Szadurska (23 February 1886, Moscow - 3 April 1942, Berlin) was a German Expressionist painter, illustrator, and graphic artist.

In 1907, she left her family and moved to Munich, where she became a student at the "Ladies' Academy" of the Münchner Künstlerinnenverein [de] (Women Artists' Association).

[3] Although the reasons for the divorce were probably numerous, the blame was put on her, for having an alleged affair with a local artist named Johannes Kutscher.

With the rise of National Socialism, she was unable to sell her works publicly, and was entirely dependent on private commissions.

During the course of the "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) campaign, some of her works were removed from the Städtischen Wessenberg-Galerie [de], which had purchased them in 1929.

In 1940, following an exhibition with the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, she decided to live there; settling in the Wilmersdorf district.