Erna Auerbach

Erna Auerbach (Frankfurt am Main 1897–London 1975) was a German-born artist and art historian best known for her work on artists of the Tudor-era in England.

Biography

She was the daughter of the painter Emma Kehrmann (1867-1958)^[1] and her father Ernst (1861-1926) was a College teacher that helped to introduce civics into the curriculum.^[2]

She studied art history at the universities of Frankfurt, Bonn and Munich, under

Her first solo exhibition took place in the Ludwig Schames gallery in 1925, and she also showed in group exhibitions in the Frankfurter Künstlerbund, and the “Women represented by women” exhibition in 1930. During this time she also taught evening classes at the Frankfurt Volksbildungsheim as well as other art schools.[2] However, the increasing control of the national socialist government made it harder and harder for her to teach and exhibit. She left to for London in 1933 becoming what would later be described as an artist of a "lost generation", those who had established themselves in the Germany art scene, but later fled Germany after the rise of national socialism, and struggled to find their feet in their new adopted homelands.^[2]

She exhibited in Germany and, after emigrating to England in 1933 (her family was Jewish), in her new home as well. When her studio was destroyed in World War II, she returned to art history.

She studied at the

She died in London in 1975.^[1]

Publications

• Tudor Artists: A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Elizabeth I, Athlone, 1954
• Nicholas Hilliard, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961
• Paintings and sculpture at Hatfield House, Constable, 1971,
  ISBN 978-0094576407

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