Hanna Weil

Hanna Weil (1921–2011) was a German-born British artist, notable as a painter and teacher.

Biography Weil was born in Munich in 1921 and, after her family, who were Jewish, moved to England in 1932 to escape the establishment of Nazi Germany, she attended the North London Collegiate School. From 1940 to 1943 Weil studied at Saint Martins School of Art in central London and then taught at the Hammersmith School of Art from 1945 to 1948. She exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London and with commercial galleries, notably the Leicester Galleries and the Trafford Gallery. Both the London Transport Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum hold examples of these designs.

Weil married the engineer and metallurgist Rudolf Strauss (1913-2001) and the couple lived at Hampstead in north London.