Antoinette Sasse

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Antoinette Sasse (née Kohn, 18 June 1897 – 23 December 1986) was a French artist, and a prominent member of the French Resistance during World War II.[1]

Biography

Sasse was born in Paris to a wealthy Jewish family; one of four children, her sister Suzanne would later become a noted aviator.[2][3] She was a pupil of Henri Matisse and a friend and pupil of Léger, Soutine, Friesz and Van Dongen.[4] She painted in the Fauvism style, exhibiting her work in many Parisian galleries.[1][5]

Sasse met

fall of Paris was imminent, she and Moulin moved the papers of Pierre Cot, which documented Cot's work at the French Ministry of the Air, from Paris to a safe house in Chartres.[5] From 1942, she supervised the running of an art gallery in Nice which was a cover for Moulin's activities in the area.[5] She was also part of the Gilbert network led by her brother-in-law, Colonel Georges Groussard, and coded and de-coded messages from the resistance to Charles de Gaulle in London.[2] Following Moulin's death in 1943 as a result of torture by the Gestapo, Sasse returned to France from Switzerland and worked with Moulin's sister to uncover the circumstances of his arrest, detainment and death.[5] She was later awarded the Resistance Medal.[1]

On her death in 1986, Sasse left her estate to the city of Paris for the establishment of the

Musee Jean Moulin, which was opened in 1994.[1]

Personal life

Sasse was married to a merchant, Raymond Sachs, from 1920 to their divorce in 1933. She was later in a relationship with the poet Paul Geraldy, during which time Moulin asked her to marry him; she declined his proposal.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Antoinette Sasse, artiste et résistante". www.historia.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  2. ^ a b "Antoinette Sachs, une 'fidèle d'entre les fidèles'" (in French). 2015-11-11. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  3. ^ "Antoinette Sasse. Rebelle, Résistante et Mécène /". www.lumieresenarts.fr (in French). 22 April 2016. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  4. ^ "EXPOSITION ANTOINETTE SASSE. REBELLE, RÉSISTANTE ET MÉCÈNE (1897-1986) | Musée du Général Leclerc et de la Libération de Paris – Musée Jean Moulin". museesleclercmoulin.paris.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  5. ^ a b c d e Marnham, Patrick (2015). Army of the Night: The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance. I.B. Tauris.
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