Tatjana Amalie Wood (née Weintraub; March 2, 1926 – February 27, 2026) was an American artist and comic book colorist.
Life and career
Tatjana Weintraub was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on March 2, 1926.[1] Her German mother, Elizabeth Hammel, who was Christian, ran a women’s clothing store. Her Russian-born father, Mische Weintraub, who was Jewish, was a photographer. During World War II, she and her brother, Karl Joachim Weintraub, were sent to an international Quaker boarding school in the Netherlands. Gaining Dutch citizenship was not easy, so after World War II, the Quakers arranged for the two to travel to New York City in 1947. Karl went on to the University of Chicago, where he became a history professor,[2] while Tatjana stayed in New York, attending the Traphagen School of Fashion. In 1949, she met Wally Wood, and they married August 28, 1950.[3]