Early Life and Artistic Foundations Arnold Jacob Auerbach, born in Liverpool on April 2nd, 1898, emerged from a Jewish family steeped in the cultural currents of early 20th-century England. His father, Jonas Auerbach, was a furniture dealer, and his mother, Eva (née Levy), carried Polish heritage—a lineage that would subtly inform the artist’s later explorations of identity and displacement. Though born into a mercantile household, yo…