Clara Klinghoffer

Born 1900 – Died 1970
Clara Klinghoffer was born in Szezerzec (now Lemberg), Austria. She moved to Britain aged three. Her father worked in the tailoring business and established a shop in London’s East End. Clara soon showed a talent for drawing and she began to study at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, followed by a period at the Slade. In 1926 she married Joseph Willem Ferdinand Stoppelman. An accomplished draughtsman, she encountered early success and became one of the best known women artists of the 1920s and 1930s. The human figure always remained the focal point of her work, and at their best her portraits display a wonderful lightness and sensitivity of touch. She died in She died in London in 1970.