Ben Uri collection

Fraenkel trained at the Karlsruhe Academy and in Paris, then travelled extensively throughout Europe, Africa and India. Following her divorce in 1933, she returned to Paris, before immigrating to London, bringing many of her sculptures with her and later establishing a studio in St. John’s Wood. During the war, her son worked in a factory that produced the Mosquito Fighter Bomber and she suffered difficulties after her identity stolen by a German spy. Postwar, she exhibited in Ben Uri’s 1951 Festival of Britain Anglo-Jewish Exhibition, later moving to Bangalore, India, to be with her daughter and family.