Josef Floch – Painter

Josef Floch (1895–1977) was a Jewish Austrian artist who made drawings, paintings, and prints. He left Vienna in the 1920s, went to Paris, and fled Nazi occupied Paris for New York City in 1941.

Helen Ek Heller bronze sculpture of Josef Floch in the Leo Baeck Institute, New York and Berlin. (Photo courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute).

Floch’s work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Center for Jewish History.