Auctioneum - Bath & East Bristol Auctions
Lot 271
Marianne Hellwig John (b.1930) - Cardigan Bay 1989 - A vintage 20th Century mixed media on paper land / seascape painting depicting the English coastline. Signed to the lower right with paper label to the verso. Framed and glazed. Measures approx; 65cm x 66cm.
Hellwig is a painter, especially in acrylic, collagist, teacher and poet, born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), who moved to Scotland in 1939. She was married to the sculptor David John. Studied at Liverpool School of Art, for sculpture with Karel Vogel, 1945–50; St Martin’s School of Art, with Frederick Gore for painting, 1950–1; and at London University Institute of Education, with William Newland for pottery. Worked in administration for overseas students and the editorial section of the British Council, 1968–88, for nine years in the 1960s and 1970s teaching painting to adults at Woodley Hill House, near Reading. Hellwig John began painting abstracts in the 1960s, creating collage in the 1990s.
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