page_title: Soshana Afroyim
section_title: Travelling through America
hierarchical_section_title: Soshana Afroyim / Life / Travelling through America
caption_attribution_description: English: Otto Klemperer, conductor, Oil on Canvas, painted by Soshana, 1945 Deutsch: Otto Klemperer, Dirigent; Öl auf Leinwand, gemalt von Soshana, 1945
context_page_description: Soshana Afroyim was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. 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. Later her style developed towards abstract art, strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy.
context_section_description: At the age of 17, she travelled against her parents' will with Beys Afroyim through America. To earn their living during these travels, they painted writers, musicians, statesmen and scientists like Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Lion Feuchtwanger, Theodore Dreiser and Hanns Eisler.
  When the United Nations Conference on International Organization was opened in May 1945 in San Francisco, the couple portrayed well-known delegates, such as the deputy chairman of the UdSSR national planning commission Vasilij Vasilevič Kuznecov.
  In 1945, Soshana and Afroyim married. In 1946. their only child Amos was born in New York.
caption: Otto Klemperer, Conductor; oil on canvas, painted by Soshana Anschluss, 1945
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