Rosa Schapire

Rosa Schapire (9 September 1874 – 1 February 1954) was an Austro-Hungarian-born art historian who lived in Germany and England.

Art historian Shulamith Behr notes in her Jewish Women's Archive article on Schapire that in 1948 Schapire "recalled her childhood memories of the nationalistic and religious divisions between the Poles and the Ruthenians (Ukra[i]nians) in Galicia, which was part of the Habsburg Empire.

In 1893, Schapire moved to Hamburg, which, Behr notes, "as with other regional centers during the Wilhelmine period ... was in the process of forging a sense of modern identity by mobilizing public institutions, traditions and culture.

She translated Balzac, Zola and the Polish art historian Kazimierz Chłędowski  [pl] into German.

[4] She helped found the Frauenbund zur Förderung deutscher bildenden Kunst (Women’s Society for the Advancement of German Art) in 1916.