[Goldschmidt, Gertrudis] (b. Hamburg, Germany 1912; d. Caracas, Venezuela 1994).
An architect, sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker of German birth. She studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart until she graduated in 1938; one of her principal teachers was Paul Bonatz. The following year she traveled to Venezuela, where she combined her artistic career as a sculptor, draughts man and engraver with teaching work. From 1943 to 1948 she worked as a free-lance architectural designer. In 1952 she adopted Venezuelan nationality. She later began experimenting with the conversion of planes into three-dimensional forms exploring the media of drawing, watercolor, engraving, collage and sculpture, first on paper, and later integrating them into architectural spaces in defiance of artistic conventions. A ground-breaking example of her integration of art and architecture was her design (1962) for the headquarters of the Banco Industrial de Venezuela in Caracas, which compri
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