Vergessene Künstlerinnen. Maria Luiko und Elisabeth Springer

In the organizer's words:

Lecture by Susanne Partsch
The artists Maria Luiko and Elisabeth Springer were born in Munich in 1904.

Their artistic ambitions were encouraged in their parents' homes, Luiko studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Springer attended courses at the painting school at the Gewerbeschule on Westenriederstraße. We do not know when the two women first met. At the latest, however, when both were members of the progressive artists' association "Die Juryfreien" and achieved their first successes: one mainly with her paintings, the other with her sculptures.

After 1933, they were excluded from further participation in Munich's cultural life and from then on could only work artistically in the Jewish Cultural Association. Together they set up the Marionette Theater of Munich Jewish Artists.

On November 20, 1941, both women were deported to Kaunas, where they were murderedimmediately after their arrival.

Dr. Susanna Partsch has lived and worked as an art historian and author in Munich since 1985. She exhibited the work of Charlotte Salomon at the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen in 1981 and last year published her biography of Artemisia Gentileschi. She also regularly writes encyclopaedia articles on women artists.
An event organized by the Jewish Museum Munich in cooperation with the Verein für Fraueninteressen e. V. as part of the exhibition "Bildgeschichten. Portraits of Munich Jews"