Edith Auerbach

(Cologne 1899-1949 Paris)

Nowadays the German artist Edith Auerbach might be unknown; in her days in Paris, Montparnasse, she was highly appreciated by befriended artists as Tsugouharu Foujita, Moisej Kogan and Rudolf Levy, whom she all portrayed. She was influenced by the realistic and expressionist style of George Grosz and Felix Nussbaum. The portrait ‘Woman in thoughts’ is a colourful portrait, thinly applied to the canvas. Is it a self-portrait? At the beginning of World War II, Auerbach was arrested and send to a concentration camp. In 1943, she escaped from a prison hospital. After the war, Auerbach returned to Paris and changed her name in Edith Delamare. Her paintings changed: in a surrealistic style, she depicted the horrors from the concentration camps.