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= Helene Von Heyden = Helene Von Heyden (November 28, 1893–July 26, 1940) was a German painter during the Bauhaus movement. She is considered a co-founder of New Objectivity, and her art was considered “degenerate” under the National Socialists regime. She also founded an important private school of the time, “Freie Akademie Mannheim” along with Albert E. Henselmann and Karl Stohner.

Life and Work
She was born on November 28, 1893, in Karlsruhe, Germany and grew up there. Her family was very successful in medical and pharmaceutical research. Her family's factory, Chemische Fabrik V. Heyden, was responsible for the first production of Aspirin on an industrial scale. In 1916, she became a student of Walther Klemm at the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts. She moved to Munich in 1917 and lived there until 1918. She studied at the Bauhaus only one semester in the summer of 1919. After that, moved to Mannheim and worked as a freelance artist. She founded the “Mannheim Artist Group” alongside Albert E. Henselmann, Karl Stohner, Peter Breithut, Karl Dillinger, Xaver Fuhr, Franz Gelb, Kurt Lauber, Wilfried Otto, Theodor Schindler, and Otto Schließler. She took part in exhibitions at the Mannheim Art Gallery and was part of group art exhibitions there, such as Modern Watercolorists. Under the National Socialists, her painting, Netzflicker, was shown at the first anti-modern propaganda exhibition. Because her art was considered “degenerate”, in 1937 the National Socialists confiscated her paintings, Netzflicker and Fischerhaffen.

While living in Italy in 1933, she suffered a mental breakdown. She was taken against her will back to Germany and committed to Pirna-Sonnenstein Sanatorium. She was later moved to the Center for Psychiatric Evaluation in Ermmendigen, Germany.

On July 26, 1940, she was transported from Ermmedigen to the Grafeneck Euthenasia Center. She was euthanized under Action T4, a mass-murder campaign under the National Socialists that allowed physicians to select psychiatric patients they deemed incurable, to be euthanized.

Two of her paintings, Schiffe and Hafe, are still shown in the Mannheim Art Gallery. The Bauhaus Museum commemorated her in the 2021/2022 exhibition titled, “Forgotten Women of the Bauhaus: Fates in the 1930s and 1940s.”