Eva Frankfurther
Eva Frankfurther was a German Jewish painter who fled to London in 1939 due to escalating violence from the Nazi regime. Between 1946 and 1951, she studied life drawing at St Martin's School of Art before moving to Whitechapel and working evening shifts at Lyons Corner House and, later, in a sugar refinery. With time to paint during the day, Frankfurther painted portraits of her local community in the East End of London, particularly its Jewish, Pakistani, West Indian and Irish inhabitants.
