Hel Enri

8 March] 1873 – 18 December 1976), known pseudonymously as Hel Enri (Yiddish: על־ענרי), was a Polish-Jewish painter active in Paris.

[1] During the Nazi occupation, Berlewi was held in a transit camp with her daughter, Stefania, in Tours, France.

After the end of World War II, she became a social worker in Nice to assist wartime victims.

Her work has been compared stylistically to Georgia O'Keeffe,[1] Niki de Saint Phalle, Sam Francis, Vincent van Gogh,[2] Henri Matisse,[1] and her son Henryk, whose Constructivist mechano-faktura framework informed her greatly.

[1] By 1970, Berlewi's work was featured in over 30 exhibitions across the globe, including two in her native Poland.