Graphic artist and ‘Hitler émigré’ Katerina Wilczynski studied art in Leipzig and Berlin, before moving to Paris, then Rome on a Prix de Rome scholarship, where she made drawings of the city’s churches and monuments. In 1938 the new racial laws stripped Jewish citizens of their rights and she fled to London in 1939. During the Second World War, she drew bomb-damaged London buildings and landmarks (one was purchased by the War Artists Advisory Committee). Postwar she travelled widely, focusing on architectural drawings such as this one, admired for their simplicity, grace and classical restraint. She exhibited with émigré-run Roland, Browse & Delbanco Galleries in 1946 and 1949 and intermittently with the WIAC (invited 1966).