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