Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
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Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (July 30, 1898 - October 9, 1944), was a Viennese artist. She was a student of Johannes Itten at his private school in Vienna, and later followed Itten to study and teach at the Weimar Bauhaus. She was involved in the textile design, printmaking, bookbinding, and typography workshops there from 1919-1923. After leaving the Bauhaus, she worked as an artist and textile designer in Berlin, Prague, and Hronov. She married Pavel Brandeis in 1936.
Dicker-Brandeis and her husband were deported to the Terezín "model ghetto" in December 1942. During her time at Terezín, she gave art lessons and lectures. In September 1944, Brandeis was transported to Auschwitz; Dicker-Brandeis volunteered for the next transport to join him. She died in Birkenau on October 9, 1944. Her husband died as well.
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