Hannah Mirjam Cavin

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Hannah Mirjam Cavin (* 1918 in Vienna ; † 2002 in Düsseldorf ) was an Austrian-Romanian sculptor , textile designer and poet .

Life

Her parents from Bukovina , the lawyer Joseph Schauer and his wife Martha, promoted the artistic facilities from an early age. Hannah Mirjam first studied sculpture with the sculptor Heinrich Zita (1882–1951) at the art school for women and girls and then in Stockholm with Karl Helbig, where she graduated in textile design .

Due to the Romanian citizenship, the family was able to flee to Romania in 1938, where Hannah Mirjam Schauer married the architect Alfred Kaniuk-Cavin in 1940. In 1961 the family emigrated to Düsseldorf via Israel, where the artist accepted a position as a teacher for textile design. She died there in 2002.

plant

Hannah Mirjam Cavin created busts of well-known contemporaries (such as Max Brod , Martin Buber , Shalom Ben-Chorin , Albrecht Goes , the dancer Yuriko from the Martha Graham Dance Company and Geertruida Wijsmuller-Mejer (Aunt Truus)) and had exhibitions in the Salon de Paris in the Folkwang Museum in Essen and in Tokyo . Her literary work includes around 200 poems.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Ott: People - drawn, painted and modeled in Upwards: Youth magazine of the German Trade Union Federation No. 10, Volume 16 (October 15, 1963)

literature

  • Hedwig Brenner : Jewish women in the fine arts II , Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 2004, pp. 84–85, ISBN 3-89649-913-0
  • Hannah Miriam Cavin: Poems - Amazement, Love, Life, self-print Düsseldorf 1990 by Gernot Weinzierl Dortmund (100 copies)
personal data
SURNAME Cavin, Hannah Mirjam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Romanian sculptor, textile designer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2002
Place of death Dusseldorf