Emmy Lichtwitz Krasso

Emmy Lichtwitz Krasso (January 19, 1895 – August 6, 1974) was an Austrian-American artist. Her artwork ranged from the Old Master style to Expressionism.

Career Lichtwitz Krasso attended the Academy of Art for Women from 1911 to 1916 in Vienna, Austria, also known as the Vienna Women's Academy. At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1917. She did postgraduate work at the State Textile School, and the State Institute of Graphical Arts at the University of Vienna.

From 1918 to 1938 she had her own studio in Vienna,

She was an assistant from 1933 to 1935 to Professor Franz Cižek, who founded the Child Art Movement.

In 1939 she and her husband, Oscar T. Krasso, fled Austria for Mumbai (Bombay), India. From these drawings she created a 7' by 4 1/2' oil painting of Gandhi in the Old Master style in 1945. Lichtwitz Krasso exhibited in group shows in Rome and Vienna, and Philadelphia, USA. She was a member of the Eastern Art Association, the National Art Education Association, and the Artists Equity Association, among others. Her life-size oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi was completed and exhibited in a one-man show in Mumbai, India in 1945. in Troppau, Austrian-Silesia, now Opava in the Czech Republic. She was the daughter of Theodor Lichtwitz and Therese Grun. Her grandfather, Emanuel Lichtwitz was a liguor manufacturer and importer in Opava, and the family had relatives in Bordeaux, France and Vienna, Austria. The Wilhelm Reich Trust Fund has a photograph of Emmy Lichtwitz (pre-1930) with pianist and arranger Erna Gal. After leaving Austria, she and her husband traveled to Russia, and then to India.

She married Oscar Tuk Krasso on October 20, 1930. They came to the United States in 1946 and she was naturalized in 1952. She lived in South Plainfield, New Jersey, and taught art in her home until several years before her death, in Plainfield, New Jersey, on August 6, 1974.