Susan Einzig

Suzanne Henriette Einzig (16 November 1922 – 25 December 2009) was a British illustrator, painter, printmaker and art teacher. She is best known for illustrating the children's book Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce.

Biography

Einzig was born Suzanne Henriette Einzig on 16 November 1922 in Dahlem, Berlin, into an affluent Jewish family. Her father, the managing director of a clothing company, encouraged her artistic talents, and at the age of 15 she began studying art at the Breuer School of Design. Two years later she travelled to England on one of the last Kindertransport trains before the outbreak of the Second World War. She was joined by her brother, and later by her mother, but her father died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

To supplement her income she worked part-time as a tutor at the Camberwell School of Art, where her students included Euan Uglow and Terry Scales, as well as ex-servicemen, including the musicians Humphrey Lyttelton and Wally Fawkes. Among her colleagues were the painter and illustrator John Minton, who was an important influence on her work, and Keith Vaughan. In her later years she lived in Fulham, London, and died of heart failure at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Chelsea, on 25 December 2009. She was unmarried and had two children.

Books illustrated Norah Pulling, Mary Belinda and the Ten Aunts, 1945 Norah Pulling, Miss Richard's Mouse, 1946 Eduard Mörike, Mozart on the Way to Prague, 1946 Rex Warner, The Vengeance of the Gods, Macgibbon & Kee, 1954 Alphonse Daudet, Sappho: a Picture of Life in Paris, The Folio Society, 1954 Valerie Hastings, Jo and the Skiffle Group, Max Parrish & Co, 1958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden, Oxford University Press, 1958 Hester Burton, Her First Ball, Oxford University Press, 1959 Gillian Avery, In the Window Seat: A Collection of Victorian Stories, Oxford University Press, 1960 Margaret Love, An Explorer for an Aunt , Follett Publishing Company, 1960 Eleanor Spence, Lillipilly Hill, Oxford University Press, 1960 Eleanor Spence, The Green Laurel, Oxford University Press, 1963 Elizabeth Poston, The Children's Songbook, 1961 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, abridged by E. M. Atwood, Longmans, 1962 Jane Gaskell, Attic Summer, Hodder & Stoughton, 1963 Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, The Story of John Keats, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1963 Meindert DeJong, The Tower by the Sea, Lutterworth Press, 1964 E. Nesbit, The Bastables, Nonesuch Press, 1966