"Early landscape painting in bright colors: the influence of Expressionism and Fauvism"

(1897 Leipzig – 1980 Kitzbühel) North Frisian landscape near St. Peter-Ording. An early landscape painting in bright colors, probably seen from the dike, in an impressionist style, created in 1928 and influenced by the expressionism of the "Bridge" artists, Oskar Kokoschka, and the Fauves. The artist, of Jewish-German descent, began studying at the Dresden Academy in 1919, where she met Friedrich Karl Gotsch, who was her partner until 1933. Together, they were masters at the Oskar Kokoschka Academy from 1921–1923. From 1921, they often spent the summer months in St. Peter-Ording. In 1923–1925, they were in the USA. In 1926/27, Goldschmidt and Gotsch studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. In 1936, Goldschmidt emigrated to Kitzbühel, and in 1939 to England; in 1950, she returned to Kitzbühel, and from the mid-1950s she taught at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded by Kokoschka, in Salzburg. Oil on canvas; on the reverse—monogram and date "HG 1928", and on the frame—designation "W.K. No. 17". 62 cm x 76 cm.