Gudrun Bandisch
Toronto Daily Star, October 29 1931
Gudrun Bandisch-Wittke (1907-1982), as she later became, had a long and productive career as a sculptor and ceramics maker. In 1935, she designed the new Austrian one-schilling coin.
She was based in Austria until 1936, when she divorced her first husband and moved to Berlin. While there, she undertook various commissions for assorted government buildings and people, and she married an officer, Karl Wittke, who became a successful businessman.
After the war, Ms. Wittke returned to Austria and founded a ceramics workshop. Other than accepting work from the Nazis, she doesn't appear to have been associated with the party, though she and her husband did live in a house in Hallstatt that a Jewish family had been forced to sell.
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