Barbara Goldschmidt (; 1921 - March 7, 2013) was a German-Israeli painter. Born in Germany, she emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and attended the

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design () is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldest institution of higher education and is considered the ...

. She is the daughter of the communist author

Margarete Buber-Neumann Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, she was turned into a staunch anti-communist. She wrote the famous memoir ''Under ...

and Raphael Buber, and was raised by her paternal grandparents,

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and Paula Winkler, with whom she lived in Jerusalem with her husband and two children until 1965. She is known for her characteristically bold portraits of women.

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