Käthe Loewenthal

Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal (27 March 1878, in Berlin – 26 April 1942, in Izbica) was a German Modernist landscape painter of Jewish ancestry.

They moved frequently, living in Geneva, Lausanne, Paris and Berlin, as her father did work at various universities.

From 1904 to 1905, she worked as a freelance artist in Munich and took trips to the Bernese Highlands, which became a popular motif in her early paintings.

[1] There, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in the "Damenmalklasse" (Women's Class), taught by Adolf Hölzel, and took her academic degree in 1914.

As the harassment became progressively worse, she secretly received support from friends in the art community and her former maid, Marie, who would later hide and save over 200 of her pastels and watercolors.