Helene von Taussig

[2] In 1910 she traveled with fellow artist Emma Schlangenhausen to Oschwand, Switzerland where they studied painting with Cuno Amiet.

After the war she settled in the Anif area of Salzburg with Emma Schlangenhausen and Hilde Exner [de].

[3] Because of her Jewish ancestry von Taussig was deported to the Izbica Ghetto in Poland in 1942 where she died in on 21 April 1942.

[4] The heirs subsequently sold eleven of the nineteen paintings back to the Salzburg Museum.

[2] Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

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