Difference between revisions of "Estelle van der Merwe"
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Born in Germiston, Transvaal and from the age of 12 lived in Parys in the Orange Free State. In about 1930 she completed a one year art course at a technical school in Auckland Park. Painting became her source of a livelihood and she participated in many exhibitions and completed a number of commissions over the years. | Born in Germiston, Transvaal and from the age of 12 lived in Parys in the Orange Free State. In about 1930 she completed a one year art course at a technical school in Auckland Park. Painting became her source of a livelihood and she participated in many exhibitions and completed a number of commissions over the years. | ||
| − | Her passion however was | + | Her passion however was the marionette, an interest sparked in the 1920s by an article by Tony Sarg on how to make and operate a marionette theatre. Her first marionettes were characters from ''Jack and the Beanstalk''. |
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(3 April 1903-) Artist and marionette-constructor. Born in Germiston, Transvaal and from the age of 12 lived in Parys in the Orange Free State. In about 1930 she completed a one year art course at a technical school in Auckland Park. Painting became her source of a livelihood and she participated in many exhibitions and completed a number of commissions over the years.
Her passion however was the marionette, an interest sparked in the 1920s by an article by Tony Sarg on how to make and operate a marionette theatre. Her first marionettes were characters from Jack and the Beanstalk.
Sources
Van Delen 1991.
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