Margaret Mee
Margaret Ursula Mee , MBE (born May 22, 1909 in Whitehill, Chesham , Buckinghamshire as Margaret Ursula Brown , † November 30, 1988 in Seagrave , Leicestershire ) was a British illustrator of botany who specialized in plants from the Brazilian Amazon .
Life
After attending Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham and the Bushey Academy in Bushey , she taught in Liverpool for a short time . She then went abroad. In March 1933 she witnessed the Reichstag fire in Berlin and the subsequent boycott of Jewish shops . During the Second World War , Mee worked in Hatfield as a draftswoman for the de Havilland Aircraft Company . In 1936 Margaret Mee married Reginald Bruce Bartlett; the marriage was divorced in 1943. Like her husband, she became a member of the British Communist Party . After the war, Mee studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London , where she met Greville Mee, her future husband. She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a degree in painting and design in 1950 . In 1952 Mee moved with her husband to Brazil, where she initially taught art in São Paulo . From 1956 she took part in several Amazon expeditions, making about 400 drawings of rare plants. Margarett Mee died at the age of 79 in a car accident in Seagrave.
honors and awards
- 1976: Order of the British Empire
- 1975: Honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro
- 1979: Order of the Southern Cross
- 1990: Global 500 Award
Web links
- Drawings by Margaret Mee. FAZ , October 16, 2008, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mee, Margaret |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mee, Margaret Ursula; Brown, Ursula Margaret |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chesham |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1988 |
| Place of death | Seagrave , Leicestershire |