Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke

German writer

Date of Birth: 11-May-1888

Place of Birth: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 17-Mar-1978

Profession: writer, painter, model

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke (nee Gerhardt; 11 May 1888 – 17 March 1978) was a German writer who focused on memoirs of her time as the wife of the expressionist painter August Macke, who had portrayed her more than 200 times.
He died in World War I.
Later, she lived in Berlin with her second husband, Lothar Erdmann, who died in a concentration camp during World War II.
She saved Macke's paintings and copies of his letters by moving them from her house in Berlin before it was bombed in 1943.



Alternative names	August Robert Ludwig Macke
Description	German painter
Date of birth/death	3 January 1887	26 September 1914
Location of birth/death	Meschede (Westfalen)	Perthes-les-Hurlus (Champagne)
Work location	München, Bonn, Paris, Hilterfingen am Thuner See
Authority control	: Q33981 VIAF: 19686273 ISNI: 0000 0001 2122 9785 ULAN: 500007945 LCCN: n50040893 NLA: 35319495 WorldCat