[1] The family knew the writers Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann and also the painter Marianne von Werefkin and her partner Alexei Jawlensky.

[2][3] From 1914 to 1917, Goldschmidt studied book design at the Leipzig Academy under Hugo Steiner Prag and produced woodcuts and lithographs in an expressionist style.

[4] Arriving in London in 1939, Goldschmidt and her mother set up a small business, the Golly Studio, making and selling gloves and mittens to give themselves an income.

[1] She painted expressionist landscapes in bright pastel colours and also portraits such as Awake and Dreaming, showing a woman deep in melancholic introspection.

[4] In Austria, Goldschmidt attempted to run a guest house for a number of years but after taking classes with her old teacher Oskar Kokoschka in 1954, she decided to concentrate full-time on her art.

The Fate of Expressive Art in the 20th Century held at the Cultural and Historical Museum in Osnabrück in 2001 which concentrated on artists whose work was suppressed under the Nazi regime.