Born into a socialist, working class family, Cohen was exposed at an early age to the aesthetic and socialist ideals of the Amsterdam School, an art and architecture movement. Cohen was talented and her style as a leading graphic designer incorporated the idiom and ideals of the Amsterdam School. Highly versatile, she worked on paintings, drawings, bookbindings, calendars, posters, bookplates and medallions. During the Second World War, Cohen lived in hiding at various places in the Netherlands, but she was ultimately betrayed and captured by the Germans. On 12 June 1943 she took her own life.
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