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 World War II before establishing herself in Austria in the 1950s.

Biography Goldschmidt was born in Leipzig into a middle-class Jewish family who had several artistic connections. The family knew the writers Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann and also the painter Marianne von Werefkin and her partner Alexei Jawlensky. From 1914 to 1917, Goldschmidt studied book design at the Leipzig Academy under Hugo Steiner Prag and produced woodcuts and lithographs in an expressionist style. She exhibited works in New York in 1923 and rented a studio in Montparnasse. In 1949, Goldschmidt had a solo show in Manchester and later that year, after her mother had died, returned to Kitzbühel. A joint exhibition of works by Goldschmidt and Schwitters was held at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in 2003 and both feature in Abbot Hall's 2019 exhibition Refuge: The Art of Belonging.