Artist and teacher, born in Berlin, Germany, who studied with Lovis Corinth, 1911–15; then, during a brief period at the Weimar Academy she won its prize for landscape painting. In the 1920s and 1930s her work appeared in many mixed and several solo shows, the Jewish Museum of Berlin, later destroyed, buying two oils. From 1927–39 Reifenberg taught in various schools in Berlin, and at the Jewish Teachers’ Training College. In 1930 she married the artist Julius Rosenbaum, moving to London with him in 1939. From 1948–56 they ran a private painting school and it showed as The Belsize Group. With Rosenbaum’s death Reifenberg concentrated on her own career. She showed at Camden Arts Centre, Burgh House and elsewhere in mixed company; in 1950 with her husband and Ruth Collet she exhibited at Ben Uri Art Society, which holds her work, and at the same venue in 1961 with two others; in 1983 Margaret Fischer gave her a show.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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