Herta Wescher

Herta Kauert was born in 1899, in Krefeld, Germany, to parents were Maria (née Jentges) and merchant Heinrich Kauert. She attended the lyceum, and also took private classes; in 1917 she graduated from high school in Bonn. After graduating from high school, she studied art history, history, and archeology at Heidelberg University, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the University of Freiburg. She studied under Swiss-German art historian, Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich, and formed relationships with Wölfflin's students, such as Franz Roh, Hans Curjel, Sigfried Giedion, and Carola Giedion-Welcker. In Freiburg, Kauert studied under art historian Hans Jantzen, where she met Jantzen's student Paul Wescher in 1923. She married Paul Wescher in the same year. She received her doctorate from the University of Freiburg under Jantzen in 1924, her thesis was on the 16th century painter Sebastian Dayg. == Career ==

After graduation, her husband received a position at the Berlin State Museums and she worked there on a voluntary basis in the graphics department under the direction of Max J. Friedländer. She helped organize the Free Artists' Association, of which the art historians Sabine Spiro and Paul Westheim were also members. She was interned in 1940 after France entered World War II. Wescher and her husband fled to Basel, Switzerland in 1942. After the end of the war, Wescher separated from her husband in 1945 and returned to Paris. As a freelance journalist in the early 1950s in Paris, she wrote for the art magazine, "Art d'aujourd'hui". In c. 1953, she helped found the magazine "Cimaise". == See also ==