Somewhere Waiting The Life and Art of Christiane Pflug

Name: Somewhere Waiting The Life and Art of Christiane Pflug
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ISBN: 9780195408577

ISBN-10: 0195408578

ISBN-13: 9780195408577

Edition: 1991

Authors: Ann Davis

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The first biography of Christiane Pflug, this book tells the story of one of Canada's most important realist painters, who was born to a liberated fashion designer in Berlin, but was spared the Nazi's camps for evacuee children by taking refuge with a rigidly Roman Catholic family in the Austrian Tyrol. Reunited with her mother only in her mid-teens, she found her artistic destiny in Paris when she met Michael Pflug, an intense medical student who was also an artist. Pygmalion-like, he urged Christiane to become a painter, and directed her career as she became an acclaimed Canadian artist, until her depression and subsequent suicide in 1972. Davis draws on unpublished manuscripts, letters,…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/24/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Ann Davis is Director of The Nickle Arts Museum at the Unviersity of Calgary and a prominent art critic, curator, and teacher.