Figural Expressive Study

Helene von Taussig came from a respected assimilated Jewish family, members of the grande bourgeoisie of Austria-Hungary. Having studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, she moved in 1911 to Paris, where she explored the color concepts of the French Fauves. After World War I she lived in Salzburg with artist friends Emma Schlangenhausen, Hilde Exner, Marie Cyrenius, and Magda Mautner Markhof. Although she converted to Catholicism in 1923, she was forced to leave Salzburg in 1940 because of her Jewish origins; in 1942 she was deported and murdered.

Credit: 2013 Leihgabe der Großnichte der Künstlerin, Felicitas Eltz