The Old Underground Station

Born Siegfried Steiner in Vienna, Eric Deutsch, (afterwards Doitch), arrived in London in 1939; settling in Maida Vale, the home of many continental European Jewish refugees. He was a member of the organisation Young Austria, where he met Henry Inlander, Ernst Eisenmayer and Erich Fried, all of whom became lifelong friends. Doitch studied at St. Martin’s School of Art before being interned on the Isle of Man, afterwards continuing his studies at Camberwell School of Art (1946–49) – where he later taught printmaking, drawing and painting – winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (1951–54).
Doitch’s subjects include scenes of London life in Kilburn and Camberwell, among them several images of Warwick Avenue underground station. His work on Jewish themes drew on harrowing memories of occupied Vienna and members of his family who perished in the Holocaust. In 1976 he moved with his wife, the artist Alice Mary Fitzpayne, to rural Lincolnshire.