Aline Fruhauf (1907–1978) was an American caricaturist and painter known for her various mixed-media caricatures of musicians, the Supreme Court justices, and artists such as Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Max Weber, and Raphael Soyer, among others.
[1] Aline Fruhauf's career began early for her as she went from art student to professional caricaturist while still attending Parson's School of Design in New York.
Aline's first commissioned series were caricatures of legal figures based on satirists Ape and Spy.
[1] In 1944, Aline and her husband, Dr. Erwin Vollmer, moved to Bethesda when he was posted to the Naval Medical Center, and after settling in, she contacted a former lithography classmate and resumed printmaking.
This piece became known as "The Face of Music in Washington" and featured 24 paintings of conductors, composers, critics, and musicians displayed at the Dupont Theatre Art Gallery in 1957.