Comments on: Eva Frankfurther, Artist

By: Hetty Startup

Hetty Startup — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:18:13 +0000

In my mind’s eye I see what would be a treasured “Spitalfields Life” book about Jewish artists that would include Eve Frankfurter and many others, some of whom are listed at the end of the post. It is from vivid portraits like these and other visual images [and the buildings that remain]…as well as photographs that we are able to recall and access a world that is almost gone but not forgotten. I realize creating each book is a labor of love for you and that they are a lift in terms of fundraising….

By: Dorothy Malcolm

Dorothy Malcolm — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:07:03 +0000

Excellent work, poignant.

By: Jennifer Newbold

Jennifer Newbold — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:41:18 +0000

I’m struck by the fleeting quality of these images; they’re people solid yet ephemeral. Like people half-seen. I’ve no doubt that most of them were only half-seen for much of their lives.

I’m glad Eva captured them on paper. Perhaps they are more seen now than they were then.

By: JerryW

JerryW — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:08:22 +0000

How sad .. especially since I suspect she fared much better than the relatives that she and her parents must have left behind in 1939.
She was lucky she had her parents with her. I had a friend, Edith Jacobowitz, who was put on a train and came over on the Kindertransport in July 1939. She was 11, and had with her a suitcase and her younger brother, and nothing else at all. She never saw any one of her family again.
She wrote a small book about it, which is very moving:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Memories-Reflections-Refugees-Edith-Bown-Jacobowitz/dp/149533662X
We should not forget those times.

By: Hetty Startup

Hetty Startup — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:28:25 +0000

In my mind’s eye I see a treasured Spitalfields Life book about Jewish artists that would include Eve Frankfurter and many others, some of whom are listed at the end of the post. It is from vivid portraits like these and other visual images [and the buildings that remain]…as well as photographs that we can recall and access a world that is almost gone but not forgotten. I realize creating each book is a labor of love for you and that they are a lift in terms of fundraising….

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:11:21 +0000

Powerful faces, and new to me. I would seek to buy such images.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:38:56 +0000

An amazing collection of images, but what a sad end to the Artist; understandable however from what she and her family might have gone through during that period in history.

By: Karen Rennie

Karen Rennie — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:17:52 +0000

I loved seeing Eva’s quiet work which glowed at the Barbican
exhibition of Twentieth Century art a few years back.
Her portraits inspire my attempts at drawing!