Amalie Rothschild

Amalie Rothschild was an American artist who lived and worked within the art community of Baltimore, Maryland. A painter and sculptor, she was also an art teacher and philanthropist. She made oil and acrylic paintings as well as drawings, watercolors, and other paper works. She sculpted using found objects, Plexiglas, metals, and particleboard. Originally working in a realist style, she became known for geometric abstractions based on figurative subjects. In 1993, a critic described this approach as "[walking] a tightrope between the abstract and the representational with a suggestion of three-dimensional depth." Rothschild was by choice a regional artist. Although she occasionally exhibited elsewhere, she did not actively promote her career outside a mid-Atlantic region centered on Baltimore.