Augusta von Zitzewitz (26 December 1880 – 14 November 1960) was a German artist, based, for most of her working life, in Berlin.

Her father died in 1892, a few months after her eleventh birthday, and she was sent away to complete her education at the "Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift", a Potsdam boarding school which later formed the unsympathetic backdrop for Christa Winsloe's drama, Girls in Uniform.

Her studies in Paris, where she was also taught by André Dunoyer de Segonzac[5] and Henri Le Fauconnier,[5] continued till 1914.

Notable portrait subjects included members of the Berlin intellectual and cultural milieu such as Alfred Kerr, Max Herrmann-Neisse, Louise Schröder, Claire Waldoff and Renée Sintenis.

She also had an important sideline in woodcut prints, notably for the radical leftwing political weekly Die Aktion, between 1917 and 1932.

The shrill antisemitism on display at Nazi meeting during the 1920s was integrated into government strategy in ways that many found hard to comprehend.

Erich Römer was identified by the authorities as Jewish, which meant that the couple's daughter, Ilse, was classified as half-Jewish.

Von Zitzewitz returned to her destroyed studio in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Reichstraßestraße 97) which she had left shortly before the war ended.

[7] Another notable posthumous exhibition, arranged by the Pomerania Foundation ("Stiftung Pommern") at Kiel Castle (Rantzau building) in 1980/81, celebrated the centenary of her birth.