Rudolf Levy

Rudolf Levy (1875^[1]—1944)^[2] was a renowned painter who worked with and was a student of Henri Matisse.^[1][3] According to historian Cecil Roth, Levy was one of the "pioneers of the modern art movement in Germany."^[4]

Rudolf Levy was born in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) in 1875.^[1] He fought for the German Army in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross.^[1] In 1933, Levy fled from Berlin to Paris and in 1940 escaped to Florence, Italy.^[1] In 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died in 1944.^[2]

References

1. Gilbert, Martin (2002). The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust. Psychology Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-415-28145-4.
2. Ruhrberg, Karl (1986). Twentieth Century art: Painting and Sculpture in the Ludwig Museum. Rizzoli. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-8478-0755-0.
3. Art of the 20th century, Part 1. Taschen. 2000. p. 46. ISBN 978-3-8228-5907-0.
4. Roth, Cecil (1961). Jewish art: An Illustrated history. McGraw-Hill. pp. 813–14.