Florence Hochschild Austrian

Daughter of department store magnate John Hochschild, Florence Austrian was a Baltimore native that studied at Goucher College and at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her instructors at Maryland Institute College of Art were John Sloan and Leon Kroll. She exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

The painting “The Tuilleries” executed in 1932 was a view from Austrian’s Hotel room window at the Saint James & Albany Hotel in Paris. Austrian exhibited this painting at the the Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA in 1932.