Английская Википедия:Alice Mavrogordato

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Шаблон:Infobox person Alice Mavrogordato (née Alice Blum; 1916–2000) was an Austrian-born American artist, and translator. She is known for her abstract oil paintings, and is associated with the Washington Color School movement.[1] She worked as a translator during the Nuremberg trials in the mid-1940s.

Early life

Her name at birth was Alice Blum, she was born on 14 March 1916 in Vienna, which at the time was part of Austria-Hungary.[2][3] Her mother was Friederike (née Grossman) and her father was Ludwig Blum.[3] At age 12, she took classes at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, with Franz Cižek.[3] She had studied textile design in Austria from 1930 to 1932, and worked as a knitwear designer.[1]

On March 12, 1938, the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany happened. In 1939, she left and moved to England, as a Jewish refugee.[1] In 1941 and 1942 during the beginning of World War II, she was interned at the Isle of Man.[1] After being released, she worked in London in a war production factory.[1] After World War II, she worked for the United States Army, as a translator during the Nuremberg trials for military war crimes.[1]

In 1948, she married Ralph S. Mavrogordato, an American soldier.[3]

Career

In 1951, she immigrated to Durham, North Carolina; followed by a move in 1953 to Washington, D.C.[1][4] Around 1954, she studied at the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts, under Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.[1][3] Her first solo art exhibition was in 1958.[1] She was known for her oil paintings.[5]

She died of cancer on October 20, 2000, in Washington, D.C.[3] She left her art estate of more than 300 works to the Republic of Austria.[4]

Exhibitions

  • 1995: Women in Exile, (group exhibition), Palais Pálffy, Vienna, Austria[4]
  • 1979: (group exhibition), Plum Gallery, Kensington, Maryland[6]
  • 1957: New Faces, (group exhibition), Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.[1]

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