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Franz Heckendorf was a German painter and graphic artist who was particularly successful during the Weimar Republic. During the National Socialist era, he was sentenced to ten years in prison after helping Berlin Jews threatened with deportation to extermination camps to escape to Switzerland.
Sarah Schumann was a German painter. She concentrated on painting and in 1953 had her first solo exhibition at Zimmergalerie Franck in Frankfurt am Main. She joined the women's group "Bread and Roses". During that time she worked on three films by director Helke Sander. In 1977 she was one of the initiators of the exhibition Female Artists International 1877-1977 in Frankfurt am Main and painted large portraits of women.
Horst Janssen was a German graphic artist, printmaker, poster and illustrator. He created many drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, and woodcuts.
There is a museum dedicated to his legacy in Horst Janssen's hometown of Oldenburg. His works are represented internationally in major museums.
