Rodolphe Schönberg
1901-1944

Rodolphe Schönberg was born in Brussels in 1901. He studied with Kurt Peiser and Gérard Jacobs at l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.

He was known for his paintings, watercolors and aquatints of urban scenes. He was a sensitive painter, who exhibited the technique of traditional academy artists, yet his subjects are of modern life.
In his short career he traveled to England, Denmark and Central America.

Schönberg was a leader in the Resistance during World War II and was killed by the Nazis in May of 1944.