Elfriede Gerstl
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Elfriede Gerstl was an Austrian author who survived the Holocaust. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist.
Elfriede Gerstl
Angelica Kauffman
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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman wa
Portrait of Angelica Kauffman by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1764
Detail of Tragedy and Comedy, painted in Rome in 1791 (National Museum in Warsaw). Harmonious and powerful colours and the soft-brushed, multi-layered style of English portraitists, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, are typical for Kauffman's paintings.
Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (1795), oil on canvas, 123.5 x 158.5 cm., Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Portrait of David Garrick (1764), oil on canvas, 84 x 69 cm., Burghley House, Lincolnshire