Grete Wolf Krakauer

[2] One year later, her family moved to Vienna, where she received a modern education and was introduced to the latest ideas in art and philosophy, such as socialism and psychoanalysis.

[2] Instead of becoming active in the local art scene, she continued to develop her career in Europe exhibiting her work there and traveling there frequently until rising anti-Semitism made this impossible in 1932.

[2] In pre-state Israel (the Yishuv), Zionist organizations such as the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod commissioned paintings from Wolf Krakauer of pioneering settlements.

She was restored to the canon of Israeli art after decades of oblivion in the wake of Smadar Sheffi’s doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Gannit Ankori, submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2011.

Part of the research was the basis for the exhibition Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem, at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, in 2018, curated by Dr. Smadar Sheffi.