Eleonore Koch

Koch was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1926, the daughter of the Jewish psychoanalyst Adelheid Koch and attorney Ernst Koch; she had one sibling, an older sister, Esther. Fleeing persecution under the Nazi regime, Beginning in 1949, she resided in Paris, and continued her studies under painter Árpád Szenes and sculptor Robert Coutin. ==Career==

Upon returning to São Paulo, in 1952, Koch worked as a set designer for the fledgling television station Tupi, and also found work at the University of São Paulo, as an assistant to the scientists Mário Schenberg and César Lattes. Through her acquaintance with the psychoanalyst, art collector and critic Theon Spanudis, she met the prominent modernist painter Alfredo Volpi, and from 1953 to 1956 pursued her art studies under him, shifting her focus during this period from sculpture to painting. She came to wider attention in 2013, when the publisher Cosac Naify brought out a book devoted to her work, Lore Koch, with text by art critic Paulo Venancio Filho. ==Death==

Koch died on August 1, 2018, in São Paulo. ==References==