The Resume

(December 4, 1899-July 31, 1940)
Born in Dresden, Germany
Birth name was Anna Frieda Wächtler
Expressionist painter
Works included self-portraits, harbor scenes in Hamburg, and sketches of laborers, prostitutes and psychiatric patients

Why she might be annoying:

She smoked a pipe.
She suffered a nervous breakdown from a combination of financial troubles and a martial crisis (1929).
She was later diagnosed as schizophrenic and permanently placed in a state mental hospital (1932).
Many of her works were lost or destroyed.
Her work fell into obscurity after her death, with the first major post-WWII exhibition of her work not taking place until 1991.

Why she might not be annoying:

Her husband was a spendthrift who quickly ran through her money as well as his own.
After she was hospitalized, her husband had several children with his mistress before getting a divorce.
When she refused voluntary sterilization, the hospital denied her passes to leave the grounds.
After the Nazis took over Germany, she was forcibly sterilized.
She was murdered as part of the Nazi Action T4 program of ‘euthanasia’ of the mentally ill.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Painters
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 67]
• Degenerate Art Exhibit [Munich 1937]
• Female Pipe Smokers
• Hyphenated Names
• I Are a Schizophrenic
• I Died in 1940 (Ranked: 40)
• I Had a Nervous Breakdown
• I was Murdered
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Painters
• Profiles 42292-42500 (Ranked: 42447)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying