At first, he refused, stating he did not seek publicity for himself, but when he heard that she was a refugee from her own country, he allowed her to make life sketches of him for one month.
[1] She developed a system of art education for the non-congenital blind, based on the idea that people who have previously experienced color, form and space, can remember them to a certain degree.
She experimented with acrylic polymer (plastic) media, for its bright clear color and resistance to dampness.
[5] In the United States, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has a collection of her original lithographs dating from 1919 to 1922.
Her life-size oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi was completed and exhibited in a one-man show in Mumbai, India in 1945.
[1] Lichtwitz Krasso was born on January 19, 1895[8] in Troppau, Austrian-Silesia, now Opava in the Czech Republic.
Her grandfather, Emanuel Lichtwitz[9] was a liguor manufacturer and importer in Opava, and the family had relatives in Bordeaux, France and Vienna, Austria.
[10] The Wilhelm Reich Trust Fund has a photograph of Emmy Lichtwitz (pre-1930) with pianist and arranger Erna Gal.