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In 1944, in order to honour her husband, Constance established his
Constance Fund, which she administered until her death in 1951. The fund was dedicated to "the encouragement of Ideal Sculpture and its setting for Parks and Public Places in conjunction with the settings and surroundings"; Goetze had
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and held philanthropic activities in the garden. He is said to have had a particular fondness for Regent's Park and set aside a sum of money, the
Constance Fund, to enable gifts of sculpture to parks in London as a memorial to his wife in the event of her death.
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technique on canvas and then attached to the walls. Goetze undertook a
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Gardens, Regent's Park, London. Believed to have been commissioned by Sigismund Goetze; a gift to the gardens made by him in 1939.
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became obsessed with the idea that Goetze's paintings were part of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the
British Empire. In 1922 Spencer attacked Goetze in the journal
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with an inscription commemorating Goetze as a "Painter Lover of the Arts and
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Goetze had offered to create the works free of charge. They were executed in the
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