Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
The Leo Baeck Institute features artworks by many amazing women. One lesser known artist and fashion designer is Lucie Ritter Marcus. We’re going to highlight some of her work today.
Lucie Ritter Marcus was born in 1895 in Breslau, Germany. Lucie showed prolific talent in drawing as a young girl, creating charming illustrations for stories like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Lucie studied art in Breslau and in Heinrichau, a nearby little village, where she perfected her depictions of nature scenes. She created artistic work loved ones, such as this lovely calendar the year 1920, and she often illustrated letters sent to friends.
Lucie married Ernst Marcus, an attorney, in 1921. Her career was mainly in doing design commissions, such as exlibris bookplates or advertisements in newspapers. She even designed logo packaging for cheese companies. Lucie also created more artistic illustrations, like city views or flowers selling her work in Breslau galleries.
Ernst and Lucie emigrated to Holland in 1938 to escape increasing anti-Semitism, and then they emigrated to New York soon after. In New York, she received a job as a fashion designer for Inez Gowns. This led her to more fashion design work in Los Angeles. Lucie died in 1967.
The Leo Baeck Institute has many examples of Lucie Ritter-Marcus's fashion illustrations in our collection, plus some of her fantastical draftsmanship for book illustrations, calendars, and exlibris or bookplates.
🖼️ Works by Lucie Ritter-Marcus, Leo Baeck Institute collections.
#ArtAtTheLBI #LucieRitterMarcus #WomenArtists #JewishWomenArtists #FashionIllustration #BookDesign #ArtOfExile #GermanJewishHistory #LeoBaeckInstitute #ArtHistory
The Leo Baeck Institute features artworks by many amazing women. One lesser known artist and fashion designer is Lucie Ritter Marcus. We’re going to highlight some of her work today.
Lucie Ritter Marcus was born in 1895 in Breslau, Germany. Lucie showed prolific talent in drawing as a young girl, creating charming illustrations for stories like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Lucie studied art in Breslau and in Heinrichau, a nearby little village, where she perfected her depictions of nature scenes. She created artistic work loved ones, such as this lovely calendar the year 1920, and she often illustrated letters sent to friends.
Lucie married Ernst Marcus, an attorney, in 1921. Her career was mainly in doing design commissions, such as exlibris bookplates or advertisements in newspapers. She even designed logo packaging for cheese companies. Lucie also created more artistic illustrations, like city views or flowers selling her work in Breslau galleries.
Ernst and Lucie emigrated to Holland in 1938 to escape increasing anti-Semitism, and then they emigrated to New York soon after. In New York, she received a job as a fashion designer for Inez Gowns. This led her to more fashion design work in Los Angeles. Lucie died in 1967.
The Leo Baeck Institute has many examples of Lucie Ritter-Marcus's fashion illustrations in our collection, plus some of her fantastical draftsmanship for book illustrations, calendars, and exlibris or bookplates.
🖼️ Works by Lucie Ritter-Marcus, Leo Baeck Institute collections.
#ArtAtTheLBI #LucieRitterMarcus #WomenArtists #JewishWomenArtists #FashionIllustration #BookDesign #ArtOfExile #GermanJewishHistory #LeoBaeckInstitute #ArtHistory
