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Emmy Lichtwitz Krasso (January 19, 1895 – August 6, 1974) was an Austrian-American artist. Her artwork ranged from the Old Master style to Expressionism. ==Career== Lichtwitz Krasso attended the Academy of Art for Women from 1911 to 1916 in Vienna, Austria,〔''Who's Who of American Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living American Women,'' Volume 1, (1958-1959), First Edition, Marquis-Who's Who, The A. N. Marquis Company, Chicago, Illinois, page 719 (1959)〕 also known as the Vienna Women's Academy.〔(An Art of Their Own: Female Academies and Artist League's Austria 1900-1930 )〕 At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1917. She did postgraduate work at the State Textile School, and the State Institute of Graphical Arts at the University of Vienna.〔 At the university in Budapest, she learned all techniques of painting, ending with the Old Master technique.〔(Portrait of an Artist, ''New Jersey Music & Arts Magazine'', Volume 29, No. 10 (June 1974) )〕 From 1918 to 1938 she had her own studio in Vienna,〔 where she taught students from 1925 to 1938.〔 Among the lithographs she created shortly after World War I were "Dance of Life" and "Resurrection." Later, she created a series of lithographs entitled "We" showing the connection between "etchers" such as herself and city workers. Among these drawings were "Our Song" and "The Demonstration."〔(Emmy Lichtwitz-Krasso Biography, author Susanne Blumesberger, University of Vienna )〕 She was an assistant from 1933 to 1935 to Professor Franz Cižek, who founded the Child Art Movement.〔〔 She was especially influenced by Expressionism, which began in Germany and her native Austria during her childhood.〔(Vzplanutí / Olomouc Museum, Czech Republic: Expresionistické tendence ve (Expressionistic Tendency of) Střední Evropě 1903-1936, page 108 )〕 In 1939 she and her husband, Oscar T. Krasso, fled Austria for Mumbai (Bombay), India.〔 While there, she asked Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for permission to sketch him in person. At first, he refused, stating he did not seek publicity for himself, but when he heard that she was a refugee from her own country, he allowed her to make life sketches of him for one month.〔Interview and article in ''The Paper'', a community newspaper, South Plainfield, NJ (January 1974)〕 From these drawings she created a 7' by 4 1/2' oil painting of Gandhi in the Old Master style in 1945.〔 The same year, she had a one-man show in Mumbai.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emmy Lichtwitz Krasso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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