Katja Oxman

Katja Oxman (née Katharina Protassowsky; born 1942) is a German-born American visual artist and educator.

She is known for her still life work with assembled objects, created in color etching with aquatint.

[1] Oxman taught art for at the American University; and lived in Silver Spring, Maryland and Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

[2][3] Her father Mischa Protassowsky was Russian and of the White movement, who fled during the Russian Civil War; and her mother Gretl Hell was German, however after their marriage her mother lost her citizenship.

[4] For the addition of colors in her etchings, they often feature three or four printmaking plate layers.