Eric Doitch

Who was Eric Doitch?

Eric Doitch was a British artist.

Eric Doitch was born Siegfried Steiner by a liaison between his father Edmund Deutsch and the young Golda Steiner. Adopted into his father's family he used the name Siegfried Deutsch after his expulsion from Vienna, Austria by the Nazis, eventually changing his name to Erich Deutsch and then to the name he used for the rest of his professional life - Eric Doitch

As an artist he formed part of the London-based Jewish group of creative individuals that dominated cultural life in post-war Britain. He was friends with fellow refugees such as the artist Ernst Eisenmayer, the writer Elias Canetti, the writer Richard Grunberger, the poet Erich Fried, the poet Hans Schmeier and the playwright Peter Ury amongst many others.