Eva Herrmann (February 8, 1901 in Munich - September 7, 1978 in Santa Barbara, California) was a German-American painter, illustrator, draftsperson, and caricaturist.
Between 1932 and 1939 Herrmann traveled extensively throughout Europe to portray the most famous faces of the day, including those of George Bernard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, and Bertolt Brecht whose portraits were then sent to their respective editorial offices within the United States.
From 1933 onward (while not travelling), Herrmann frequently stayed in Sanary-sur-Mer with the exiled Mann family and maintained close friendships with a circle of local emigrants, including writer Sybille Bedford.
Commissioned by the publishing house Querido in Amsterdam, she developed cover designs for the German, Russian, and English editions of Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Exil in 1939.
[6] Subsequently, moving to Santa Barbara, Eva Herrmann's house became a meeting locale for a number of exiled German writers.