Pamina’s pre-war artwork was almost exclusively in sculpture. Through her being mentored by the acclaimed sculptor Prof. Fritz Klimsch, her sculpture “Mirium” won her the 1932 Prix de Rome award at age 28, which she could not accept due to the danger of unwarranted Nazi attention. Klimsch’s mentoring also led to her life-sized “Reclining Nude” sculpture being featured in the prestigious Berlin Academy of Arts’ Autumn Exhibition in 1934. Sadly, most of her pre-war sculptures were stolen by the Nazis when she fled Germany for England in 1939.
