She is the daughter of Professor Seeband, though none of them are aware of their shared history and connection. The grateful Russian officer releases Seeband and thereafter helps to keep evidence of his Nazi past from catching up with him.Īs an adult, Kurt studies painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he falls in love with a young fashion design student named Elisabeth (like his aunt), whom he calls Ellie. While there, he volunteers to assist a Red Army officer's wife during a complicated birth and saves the lives of both wife and child.
After the war, he is arrested by the Russians and placed in a prison camp. The doctor who orders her sterilization and death is gynecologist Professor Carl Seeband, a high-ranking member of the SS medical corps. She also tells Kurt to "never look away" because "everything that is true holds beauty in it."Įlisabeth is diagnosed with schizophrenia and is sterilized and murdered under the Nazi euthanasia program. She rambles euphorically, saying she is "playing a concert for Hitler" and hits herself on the head with a glass ashtray. Later at home, Kurt walks in on Elisabeth playing the piano in the nude.
While there, he is mesmerized by Girl with Blue Hair, a modernist sculpture by Eugen Hoffmann. As a child during the Nazi era, Kurt Barnert (inspired by Gerhard Richter) visits an exhibit of " Degenerate Art" in Dresden with his beautiful young aunt Elisabeth.
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