Paneth, Marie

Artist, teacher, and writer. Born 1895; died 1986.

Biographical Note

Marie Paneth was born in Austria on August 15, 1895. She studied art with Franz Čižek whose theories on art education for children influenced her later work. Paneth was the daughter-in-law of Joseph Paneth, a friend of Sigmund Freud. She met Freud in 1920 shortly before moving to the Dutch East Indies with her husband. Paneth later moved to the United States, living and working in New York City where she exhibited with the Society of Independent Artists in 1939. She spent most of the war years in England where she worked as an art instructor with children traumatized by the bombing of London. After the war, she continued to explore the therapeutic uses of art among children who had survived German concentration camps. Paneth returned to New York in the early 1950s. She moved to France in the late 1960s and died in London in November 1986.