Natascha Artin Brunswick
| Natascha Artin Brunswick | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Natascha Naumova Jasny June 11, 1909 Saint Petersburg |
| Died | February 3, 2003 (aged 93) Princeton, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Spouse(s) | Emil Artin, Mark Brunswick |
Natascha Artin Brunswick, née Jasny (June 11, 1909 – February 3, 2003) was a German-American mathematician and photographer.
Natascha Artin Brunswick was the daughter of Naum Jasny, a Russian Jewish economist from Kharkiv. Her mother was a Russian orthodox and dentist. Since at the time Russian orthodox Christians were prohibited from marrying Jews, she converted to protestantism. They were married in Finland.
Naum Jasny was an adherent of the Mensheviks and fled to Tblisi after the October Revolution in 1917. Natascha, her sister, and her mother followed in 1920. After the Bolsheviks took control of Georgia, the family lived in Austria from 1922 to 1924, for a brief period in 1924 in Berlin, and finally moved to Langenhorn, Hamburg, where they remained until 1937. Natascha Jasny attended the progressive Lichtwark school. While still in school, she photographed with a simple box camera and processed her own pictures in the bathroom at home, which served as a makeshift darkroom.
Natascha graduated in 1928. She hoped to study architecture at the Bauhaus Dessau, but the family's financial situation made this impossible. She instead studied mathematics at the University of Hamburg, where she also took courses in art history from Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky. She graduated from the university in 1930 with a Magister degree.
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