Grete Wolf Krakauer

Grete Wolf Krakauer née Wolf (; 1890–1970) was an Austrian-Israeli painter.

Biography Wolf Krakauer was born in Witkowitz, Moravia, on December 10, 1890, to a relatively assimilated, middle class Jewish family. One year later, her family moved to Vienna, where she received a modern education and was introduced to the latest ideas in art and philosophy, such as socialism and psychoanalysis. She went on to travel and study with Johannes Itten, Albert Weisgerber and Adolf Hölzel. Her first solo exhibition was at the Kunstsalon Heller in Vienna in 1913, just before World War I began. Wolf Krakauer was the subject of a 2018 retrospective, Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem at the Mishkan Museum of Art. Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

Her estate was preserved by her daughter, Prof. Trude Dothan, in her home in Jerusalem. She was restored to the canon of Israeli art after decades of oblivion in the wake of Smadar Sheffi’s doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Gannit Ankori, submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2011. Part of the research was the basis for the exhibition Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem, at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, in 2018, curated by Dr. Smadar Sheffi.