Hilde Goldschmidt

Hilde Goldschmidt

(b.1897 Leipzig, Germany – immigrated to Great Britain 1939, returned to Kitzbühel, Austria 1950 – d. 1980 Kitzbühel, Austria)

Frau Trautz Schranz, 1951 Pastel on paper 50 x 37.4 cm Ben Uri Collection Presented by Brian and Brigitta Appleby 1996

This bold portrait of Frau Trautz Schranz draws on Goldschmidt’s training under Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka in Dresden (1920–23). Afterwards, Goldschmidt travelled widely in New York, France and Italy, before returning to Munich and holding her first major exhibition in 1932. In 1933, she settled in Kitzbühel, but was forced to flee to London in 1939. She moved to the Lake District in 1942, part of the Langdale Group which included fellow refugee artist Kurt Schwitters, but returned to her house and studio in Kitzbühel, Austria in 1950.