Else Lasker-Schüler, the acclaimed German writer and artist who fled Nazi rule, is being honoured with a Google Doodle today.

A key figure in the Expressionist movement, Lasker-Schüler was a prolific writer who produced poetry, plays, short stories and essays chronicling romance and religion.

She is perhaps best known for her poem “My Blue Piano”, which was first published by a Swiss newspaper on this day in 1937.

Born into a wealthy German-Jewish family in Elberfeld in 1869, she was home-schooled by her mother, who encouraged the young Lasker-Schüler to develop her voice as a poet.

Following her marriage to Berthold Lasker, a doctor and chess master, she moved to Berlin in 1894 and became a prominent figure in the city’s bohemian scene.

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I would like to be that unnoticed / & that necessary AFP/Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'The Hollow Men', TS Eliot This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'Dulce et Decorum est', Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, / Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs / And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'Sonnet XVII', Pablo Neruda I love you as certain dark things are to be loved / in secret, between the shadow and the soul. AFP/Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'the boys i mean are not refined', ee cummings they speak whatever’s on their mind / they do whatever’s in their pants / the boys i mean are not refined / they shake the mountains when they dance Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'Dark Pines Under Water', Gwendolyn MacEwen But the dark pines of your mind dip deeper / And you are sinking, sinking, sleeper / In an elementary world; There is something down there and you want it told Getty Images/iStockphoto 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'O Captain! My Captain!', Walt Whitman O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; / The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'Cuz He’s Black', Javon Johnson Don’t like the / fact that he learned to hide from the cops before he knew / how to read. Angrier that his survival depends more on his ability / to deal with the “authorities” than it does his own literacy Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'Song', Allen Ginsberg The weight of the world / is love / Under the burden / of solitude, / under the burden / of dissatisfaction / the weight, / the weight we carry / is love Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings', Maya Angelou The caged bird sings with a fearful trill/ Of things unknown but longed for still/ And his tune is heard on the distant hill/ For the caged bird sings of freedom Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written The Second Coming', WB Yeats The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity ' Getty Images 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'Lady Lazarus', Sylvia Plath Out of the ash I rise / With my red hair / And I eat men like air Rex Features 28 of the most powerful lines of poetry ever written 'Dirge Without Music', Edna St Vincent Millay Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave / Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; / Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. / I know. But I do not approve. 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She often appeared in costume across Berlin’s artistic cafes, including in flamboyant robes to portray a fictional Egyptian prince named Yusuf.

The poet divorced her husband in 1903 and married the artist Georg Lewin, better known by the pseudonym Herwarth Walden, only to divorce again in 1912.

Lasker-Schüler won the Kleist Prize, a renowned German literary award, in 1932 but spent much of her career destitute and reliant on financial help from her friends.

Following Hitler’s rise to power, she was the victim of several street attacks by Nazis and forced to flee Berlin – first to Zurich, then Palestine and Jerusalem.

She was later stripped of her German citizenship outbreak and unable to return to Europe following the outbreak of the Second World War.

Lasker-Schüler died in Jerusalem in early 1945, aged 75, following a heart attack. She left behind an incomplete draft of a play, titled I and I.