Grete Wolf Krakauer
Grete Wolf Krakauer née Wolf (1890–1970) was an Austrian-Israeli painter. Biography Wolf Krakauer was born in Witkowitz, Moravia, on December 10, 1890, to a relatively assimilated, middle class Jewish family. One year later, her family moved to Vienna, where she received a modern education and was introduced to the latest ideas in art and philosophy, such as socialism and psychoanalysis. She studied art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She went on to travel and study with Johannes Itten, Albert Weisgerber and Adolf Hölzel. Her first solo exhibition was at the Kunstsalon Heller in Vienna in 1913, just before World War I began. She joined an avant-garde group of artists, the Bund der Geistig, and met her future husband, Leopold Krakauer. She became known for her portraits, painting leading figures in Red Vienna, and her work was included in the 1922 Venice Biennale. In 1924, her husband moved to Jerusalem and she followed, along with their daughter Trude, a few months later. Instead of becoming active in the local art scene, she continued to develop her career in Europe exhibiting her work there and traveling there frequently until rising anti-Semitism made this impossible in 1932. Almost her entire family