Erna Auerbach - Portrait of a woman in black (self-portrait) [1932]

Erna Auerbach (1897–1975)

Bildnis einer Frau in Schwarz (Selbstporträt) [1932]

Öl auf Leinwand - 67 x 50 cm

Historisches Museum Frankfurt

Foto: Horst Ziegenfusz

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Erna Auerbach (Frankfurt 1897 - London 1975), who came from a long-established Jewish Frankfurt family, was a painter and art historian and specialised in portrait painting in both areas. From 1917, she studied painting under Johann Vincenz Cissarz at the old Frankfurt School of Arts and Crafts and, after study visits to Munich and Paris, took private lessons from 1928 in Frankfurt with the painter and typographer Willi Baumeister. At the same time, Auerbach pursued her studies in art history at Frankfurt University and attended lectures and seminars with Georg Swarzenski, among others. During study visits to Munich and Bonn, she attended lectures and seminars by the well-known art historian Heinrich Wölfflin. Back in Frankfurt, she completed her doctorate in 1923 on German portrait painting of the 16th century.

Source: Städel Museum

 

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