Hilde Goldschmidt was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.
10 Facts About Hilde Goldschmidt
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From 1914 to 1917, Hilde Goldschmidt studied book design at the Leipzig Academy under Hugo Steiner Prag and produced woodcuts and lithographs in an expressionist style.
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Hilde Goldschmidt took private painting lessions with O R Bossert and dance lessions at the Leipzig Opera ballet school as well as writing poetry.
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In 1918 the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts began admitting women students for the first time and Hilde Goldschmidt studied painting there from 1920 to 1923 during which time she was taught by Oskar Kokoschka.
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Hilde Goldschmidt lived a somewhat cosmopolitan life after graduating from the Dresden Academy.
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Hilde Goldschmidt exhibited works in New York in 1923 and rented a studio in Montparnasse.
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Hilde Goldschmidt painted expressionist landscapes in bright pastel colours and portraits such as Awake and Dreaming, showing a woman deep in melancholic introspection.
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In 1949, Hilde Goldschmidt had a solo show in Manchester and later that year, after her mother had died, returned to Kitzbuhel.
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Hilde Goldschmidt's paintings became bolder and more structured often with thick black lines surrounding bold blocks of colour.
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Hilde Goldschmidt had several solo exhibitions in both Austria and England, notably at Annely Juda Fine Art in 1969 and at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal during 1973.