Grete Wolf Krakauer


Grete Wolf Krakauer was an Austrian-Israeli painter.

Biography

Wolf Krakauer née Wolf was born in Moravia in 1890. Her family moved to Vienna and she studied art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She went on to travel and study with Johannes Itten, Albert Weisgerber, and Adolf Hölzel. Her work was included in the 1922 Venice Biennale.
She was married Leopold Krakauer. The couple, along with their daughter Trude emigrated to Jerusalem in 1924.
In 1969 Wolf Krakauer was the recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture. She died in 1970 in Jerusalem.

Legacy

Wolf Krakauer was included in the 2017 exhibition The Better Half: Jewish Women Artists Before 1938 at the Museum Dorotheergasse. Wolf Krakauer was the subject of a 2018 retrospective, Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem at the Mishkan Museum of Art. Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.