Artist. A prolific gouache painter, she is remembered for her autobiographical series of art entitled "Leben (Life) oder Theater (or Theater) Ein Singspiel (a Song-play)" that comprised over 700 works painted between 1941 and 1943 while she was living in southern France. The daughter of a prosperous Berlin Jewish family, her father was a surgeon. At age 9 her mother committed suicide and following the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933, she dropped out of school. However, in 1936 she applied for and gained admission to the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst (United State Schools for Pure and Applied Arts) and studied there for two years until Adolph Hitler's anti-Semitic policy made it too dangerous for her to continue. She was sent to the Villefranche-sur-Mer, France to live with her maternal grandparents on the grounds of a luxurious villa owned by a wealthy American, who was sympathetic to the plight of Jews in Europe. Following France's defeat by Germany in 1940, she and her grandfather were held in an internment camp by French authorities but were released in early 1941 and they returned to Nice, France where she began her feverish effort with her autobiographical paintings. Over the next two years she painted over a thousand pictures that focused on the main events in her life, from her mother's suicide, attending art school under the fearful eye of the Third Reich, and her experience living with her grandparents. She would frequently re-arrange and edit the paintings, adding texts, captions, and overlays. In 1943, as the Nazis began to intensify their search for Jews in southern France, she entrusted her work to a close friend in hopes of preserving it. The same year, she married another German Jewish refugee, Alexander Nagler, and in late September they were arrested and taken to Jewish processing center in Paris, France for final deportation to the Auschwitz Death Camp where she was probably sent to the gas chambers immediately after her arrival on October 10, 1943. She was 26 years old and five months pregnant at the time. On April 21, 2012 a memorial stone and plaque dedicated to her memory were placed at her former residence in Berlin. A movie about her life and work simply entitled "Charlotte" is currently being filmed under the direction French filmmaker Eric "Bibo" Bergeron.