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Emmy Klinker (1891-1969) was a German expressionist painter. In 1919 she exposed, together with Albert Bloch, Kurt Schwitters, and others in the famous Berlin gallery "Der Sturm". For a long time she was nearly forgotten, but 2012, Wuppertal’s Von der Heydt-Museum, showed some of her paintings in an exhibition consecrated to "Der Sturm".
Born in Eupen (today that city belongs to Belgium), she moved to Berlin in 1911. In 1914 she went on a study trip to Paris, after she had met Alexei von Jawlensky. She was a close friend of Gabriele Münter, another expressionist artist.
In 1938 one of her paintings was shown in an exhibition of "degenerate art" and she was close to being forbidden to paint by the Nazi authorities. In 1944-1945 she spent five months in the concentration camp of Dachau for having hidden Jewish friends.
In 1956 she was awarded the Prize of the City of Munich. Emmy Klinker died 1969 in a car accident.
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| Self portrait 1928 |
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