[1] From 1934 onwards she was working for the Angermuseum (then known as the Städtische Museum or Municipal Museum)[2] and during second world war became its provisional director, following Herbert Kunze, who had been removed from office by the local Nazi authorities.
[2] The space that was designed and decorated by artist Erich Heckel between 1922 until 1924 with the expressionist monumental mural paintings "Lebensstufen" (Stages of Life).
[2] When Erfurt citizens who supported the National Socialists' view of Heckel's works as degenerate art, they threatened to storm and destroy the so called "Schreckenskammer" (Chamber of Horrors).
The Heckelraum subsequently fell into oblivion and was only rediscovered after the war - the only preserved monumental mural paintings of German Expressionism.
The couple continued their work for the museum together, successfully curating numerous exhibitions, until in 1963, Herbert Kunze was again made to resign from his post for political reasons.