Eugene Spiro

{{Short description|German-American painter}}

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Eugene Spiro, born Eugen Spiro (April 18, 1874 in Breslau, Silesia – September 26, 1972 in New York City) was a German and American painter.

He was born to a Jewish family in Breslau.{{cite web|url=http://access.cjh.org/home.php?type=extid&term=1413739#1|title=CJH Digital Collections|first=Center for Jewish|last=History|website=access.cjh.org}} In 1904 Spiro was briefly married to the famous actress Tilla Durieux, who later married the important art dealer Paul Cassirer. His younger sister was the painter Baladine Klossowska.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjBhEn_8MfMC&q=kovelitz&pg=PA207|title=Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination|last=Riley|first=Charles A.|date=3 April 2018|publisher=UPNE|page=207|isbn=9781584651512|via=Google Books}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UO_HTonZ31cC&q=Elisabeth+Dorothea+Spiro+minsk&pg=PR2|title=Balthus|last1=Rewald|first1=Sabine|last2=Balthus|date=3 April 1984|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|page=11|isbn=9780810907386|via=Google Books}} The French painter Balthus was his nephew.