Batia Grossbard

This is Batia Grossbard

Batia Friedkes Grossbard (April 14, 1910 – August 11, 1995) was a Polish-born Israeli painter influenced by American abstract expressionism. Grossbard studied and graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. She worked with watercolors and oils, and also created lithographs. In 1938 she emigrated to Palestine. After moving there, she served in …

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Who is Hilde Goldschmidt?

Hilde Goldschmidt (7 September 1897 -7 August 1980) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Facing persecution under the Nazi regime she sought refuge in Britain during the Second World War since establishing herself in Austria in the 1950s. Goldschmidt was born in Leipzig into a middle-class Jewish family who had several artistic connections. The …

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