Philipp Friedrich Kaufmann was born in Vienna where he was raised and educated, majoring in art. He is known as a war painter of World War I. Before the Nazis came into power Kaufman had achieved some recognition and he exhibited his works of art in Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam and Switzerland. The Nazi regime, however, compelled him to leave Vienna and in 1937 he emigrated to Great Britain. Here, in British circles, he became a much sought after portrait artist. Philipp Kaufmann died in London in 1969.