"Early landscape painting in vibrant 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, likely viewed from a dike, executed 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 Oskar Kokoschka's academy from 1921 to 1923. From 1921, they frequently spent summer months in St. Peter-Ording. From 1923 to 1925, they were in the United States. In 1926/27, Goldschmidt and Gotsch studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. In 1936, Goldschmidt emigrated to Kitzbühel, and in 1939 to England; she returned to Kitzbühel in 1950, and from the mid-1950s taught at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded by Kokoschka, in Salzburg. Oil on canvas; on the reverse, a monogram and date "HG 1928", and on the frame, an inscription "W.K. No. 17". 62 cm x 76 cm.