Eleonore Koch

Eleonore Koch, also known as Lore Koch (April 2, 1926 – August 1, 2018), was a German-born Brazilian painter and sculptor. She was best known for paintings that evoke the memory of everyday objects, while also exploring the sensory nature of painting through a tension between color planes and line. she had one sibling, an older sister, Esther. Fleeing persecution under the Nazi regime, Beginning in 1949, she resided in Paris, and continued her studies under painter Árpád Szenes and sculptor Robert Coutin. She came to wider attention in 2013, when the publisher Cosac Naify brought out a book devoted to her work, Lore Koch, with text by art critic Paulo Venancio Filho.