Paula Gans

Soon after her arrival she became friends with the painter Hertha Spielberg and shared a studio with her in the Curiohaus in Rothenbaumchaussee 15.

Through Spielberg, Gans got to know other Hamburg artists, including the painter Gertrud Schaeffer and the photographer Charlotte Rudolf; both temporarily worked in the studio in Rothenbaumchaussee.

[1] Gans's landscapes, nudes and still lifes show a strong influence by the French Impressionists.

The Hamburgische Künstlerschaft (Hamburg Artists) was brought into line by the National Socialists and Paula Gans was expelled in April 1933.

Gans was still a Czechoslovak citizen, but with the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, this could no longer protect her.

Im Gebet beim Laubhüttenfest (In prayer at Sukkot ) by Paula Gans (1920)
Stolperstein for Paula Gans: Here lived Paula Gans. Born in 1883. Humiliated/Disenfranchised. Escaped to death. 7 November 1941