Soshana Afroyim (born 1 September 1927, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian painter. As an artist of the Modernism period, she devoted her life to art and travelled around the world, where she had many exhibitions. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature, showing landscapes and portraits, they later developed towards abs...
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Soshana Afroyim (born 1 September 1927, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian painter. As an artist of the Modernism period, she devoted her life to art and travelled around the world, where she had many exhibitions. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature, showing landscapes and portraits, they later developed towards abstract art, strongly influenced by calligraphy.
Soshana was the first born child of Margarethe and Fritz Schüller. Born as Susanne Schüller during the interwar period, she later married the much older painter Beys Afroyim (who would later become known for the case of Afroyim v. Rusk). Fritz Schüller was the owner of a factory producing men’s imitation jewellery and Margarethe Schüller was an artist. From 1933, Susi, as she was known to her parents, attended the Schwarzwald school and spent much of her free time in the Viennese Burggarten with...
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