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From 1905 to 1906, Elfriede Thum studied at the University of Lausanne. Here she met the poet Rolf Lauckner, the stepson and executor of the author Hermann Sudermann. In Dresden, Thum continued her painting studies with Charles Johann Palmié. One of her artistic role models was Giovanni Segantini. In 1909, Elfriede Thum was in Nidden and met Max Pechstein there. In 1910/11, Elfriede Thum acquired a property in Tzschetschnow near Frankfurt (Oder) and had a villa built there. In 1913, she married Rolf Lauckner and the family moved into the villa. Based on Sudermann's novel "Der Katzensteg", they called the area around their house the "Katzengrund". The magazine "Zeit-Echo, Ein Kriegs-Tagebuch der Künstler" (Graphik-Verlag, Munich), published from 1914 to 1914, publicised an original lithograph by Elfriede Thum in 1915, in its 18th edition, alongside graphics by other artists. In 1928, "Scherl's Magazin" published a photo of the artist in the essay "The Poet's Wife" by Frank Thiess. During the First World War, Elfriede Lauckner signed her works with "Erich Thum". In the early 1920s, Elfriede Lauckner presented her first works, e.g. with Ferdinand Möller, Hans Goltz and at the Kunsthaus Schaller in Stuttgart. She was considered one of the strongest artistic talents of the younger generation. The Nazis defamed Thum's works as "degenerate". From 1937 she was banned from exhibiting, and as part of the "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") campaign, in 1937 her prints signed "Erich Thum" were confiscated from Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie in Dessau, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Kestner Museum in Hanover and the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Magdeburg. Elfriede Lauckner then worked temporarily as a stage designer. The villa near Frankfurt (Oder) fell victim to the war. Elfriede Lauckner spent the last years of her life with her husband in Berlin-Grunewald. In 1949, she was represented at the exhibition "Mensch und Arbeit" in Berlin with two lithographs from her portfolio "Der Bahnbau" from the 1910s. In 1988/9, the Lippeck Gallery in Berlin showed more than 70 paintings, watercoloured costume designs, lithographs, etchings and photos of Thum's glass paintings that are no longer preserved. In 2005, the Barthelmess & Wischnewski gallery in Berlin put on a solo exhibition about Elfriede Thum. In 2014, the Frankfurt (Oder) City Archive showed a special exhibition on Elfriede Thum. A street in Frankfurt was named after her.
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