Biography

Born 1908, Latvia; arr. Australia 1948; died 1997.

Studies

Academy of Fine Arts , Riga, Latvia 1929 - 1940

She travelled and painted in Europe, exhibited in Germany 1944-47

After the war she was placed in a displaced persons camp and migrated to Australia. Juliet Peers notes she " experienced a few years of intense success' winning significant prizes and her work being acquired by the NGV. However she had to support herself working in a factory, showing her work through the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and other artist societies. Her street scenes, landscape and flower paintings show a great spontaneity and fine colouration,

She ceased painting in 1980.

Retrospective at Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melb 1999

Awards

1950 Dunlop prize 

1951 Prize in competitions in Bendigo

1971 Gosford

1971 Portland

1973 Morwell

Represented

NGV; AGWA; Uni. WA.

Bibliography

Peers, More than just gumtrees, Melb., 1993

The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The Miegunyah Press 2006

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