Edith Hoffmann, who lived for 108 ½ years, 1907-2016, was brought up in Germany and reached London in 1934. After four years of volunteering in various jobs, her involvement in the exhibition “20th-Century German Art” led to her twelve-year employment at the Burlington Magazine, to which she continued to contribute while accompanying her Israeli diplomat husband to various countries. She has been termed “the first woman editor of the Burlington”. She wrote the first book in English about Oskar Kokoschka.
Yonna Yapou-Kromholz, daughter of Edith Hoffmann(-Yapou), is an art historian, as was her mother. After studying at the Courtauld Institute, and a 15-year stint as curator at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, she contributed exhibition reviews to Apollo Magazine from the United States. She is now living in Jerusalem.
Image: Edith Hoffmann, 1950