Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
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Elfriede Lohse Wächtler (December 4, 1899 in Dresden - July 31, 1940 in Pirna) was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich. She was killed in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany. Since 2000 a memorial center for the T4 program in the house commemorates her life and work in a permanent exhibition.
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