Erna Auerbach

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Erna Auerbach (born October 1, 1897 in Frankfurt am Main ; died June 23, 1975 in London ) was a German-British painter and art historian .

Life

Erna Auerbach was the daughter of the painter Emma Kehrmann (1867–1958) and the lawyer and local politician Ernst Moritz Auerbach (1863–1926). Her sister Ilse Auerbach married the lawyer Clive M. Schmitthoff , who had also fled Germany.

Auerbach attended the Frankfurt Schiller School and studied art history at the universities of Frankfurt, Bonn and Munich. She received her doctorate in 1924 under Rudolf Kautzsch with the dissertation The German portrait painting in the 16th century in Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria at the University of Frankfurt . At the same time, she studied painting from 1917 to 1922 at the Städelschule under Johann Vincenz Cissarz . In 1929 she was a private student with Willi Baumeister . She made a name for herself as a portrait painter . In 1925 she had her first solo exhibition in the “Galerie Schames” in Frankfurt, she took part in group exhibitions of the Frankfurter Künstlerbund and in September 1930 in the exhibition “Women portrayed by women”, organized by the Association of German and Austrian Artists' Associations of All Art Genres (GEDOK).

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Auerbach emigrated to England in 1933. There she could get involved in the exhibition of the emigrants. During the war she served in the "Women's Voluntary Service". She received British citizenship in 1946. After her studio in London was destroyed by the effects of the war, she turned back to art history. In London she studied at the Courtauld Institute after the war and in 1949 wrote a second dissertation on patronage and painting in 16th-century England under Henry M. Hake , which she published in 1954 under the title Tudor Artists . From 1947 to 1975 she was a visiting lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute in London.

Fonts (selection)

Extract from the dissertation (1925)
  • Tudor Artists. A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Elizabeth I . Athlone Press, London 1954.
  • Nicholas Hilliard . Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1961.
  • with Charles Kingsley Adams : Paintings and sculpture at Hatfield House. A catalog . Constable, London 1971.

literature

  • Auerbach, Erna , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 40
  • Christine Rohrschneider: Auerbach, Erna . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 617 f.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Saur, Munich 1999, Volume 1, pp. 14-16

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personal data
SURNAME Auerbach, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British painter and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1975
Place of death London