Käthe Ephraim Marcus

Käthe Ephraim Marcus (also Kathe Ephraim-Marcus, Kaethe; née Ephraim; b. 1892, Wrocław – d. 1970, Ramat Gan) was a German-Israeli painter and sculptor.

Education Marcus studied at art schools in Karlsruhe and Wrocław (then Breslau) between 1911 and 1912. In 1913, she studied with Lovis Corinth and Max Beckmann.

Biography Her husband Dr. Joseph Marcus (1886-1961) was a senior government official in Breslau and Zionist organizer. The couple likely met through the hiking group and youth movement "Blau Weiss" in Breslau. They married in 1917. In 1934, she and Joseph emigrated to Palestine after spending 1933 in England.

Marcus was evicted from her studio in Jerusalem in 1947 by the British; much of her early work was destroyed. Her art also appeared in large group exhibitions that defined Israeli art in major museums in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. and, in particular, of Israeli feminist art. Her art is characterized, in the words of one reviewer, "an atmosphere of melancholy, loneliness and alienation. She often painted subjects of mothers and children, bewildered and lonely women in hostile environments, new immigrants and transit camps."

In 1961, she published a book titled Out of My Life.