Käthe Schuftan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Käthe Schuftan

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1899

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 21-Feb-1958

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Käthe Fanny Schuftan (12 January 1899 – 21 February 1958) was a German Jewish artist whose paintings and drawings expressed both human suffering and the aspiration of spirit, in the mid 20th century.
Josef Paul Hodin wrote that she "worked in an Expressionist style reminiscent of Käthe Kollwitz' social pathos".
An artist at the time of the Weimar culture, she was tortured and imprisoned by the Nazis in the early 1930s, and her work was destroyed.
She escaped in 1939, arriving in Manchester, England, not long before the outbreak of the World War II; she lived and worked there until her death in 1958.