Rosa Schapire
Rosa Schapire (9 September 1874 – 1 February 1954) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian-born art historian who lived in Germany and England. She was a model and art owner who gave early recognition to the Die Brücke group of artists. Life Rosa Schapire was born in Brody, Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia (now Ukraine) in 1874. Art historian Shulamith Behr notes in her ''Jewish Women's Archive'' article on Schapire that in 1948 Schapire "recalled her childhood memories of the nationalistic and religious divisions between the Poles and the Ruthenians (Ukra[i]nians) in Galicia, which was part of the Habsburg Empire. Here she declared that she was predestined towards internationalism through her birth, upbringing and fate." The daughter of wealthy Jewish parents, she was educated at home, because there were no appropriate educational facilities for her in Brody. In 1893, Schapire moved to Hamburg, which, Behr notes, "as with other regional centers during the Wilhelmine period ...
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