Woman of the week:
Maria Konopnicka
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Woman of the week:
Niki de Saint Phalle
US-American Sculptor
born 29 October 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine
died 22 May 2002 in San Diego, California
In the summer of 2000 Niki de Saint Phalle gave the city of Hanover a magnificent gift: she presented the Sprengel Museum with 300 of her works and re-established at the same time an old connection. For in 1969 she had held one of her first large one-woman shows in Hanover, and in 1974 the city had bought three of her glowingly colorful, voluminous female figures and positioned the Nanas prominently on the bank of the Leine, where they have since become a familiar trademark of Hanover. Niki de Saint Phalle was a citizen of the world: she was born …
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Woman of the week:
Martha Washington
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Woman of the week:
Gabriele Wohmann
This biography is not yet available in English. You can find the German version here
Woman of the week:
Asta Nielsen
Danish actress, writer, director, and artist; star of silent film
born September 11, 1881 in Copenhagen
died May 25, 1972 in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen
“Asta Nielsen is the only female artist in film who can be considered outright as a genius and whose artistic achievements have the unforced quality of natural events. Everyone who has ever enjoyed the pleasure of her friendship knows that she, like all the other real greats in the world of art, is also a significant human being whose exceptional sense of humor and deep wisdom about life are without parallel.” That is what one of her closest friends, actor and director Paul Wegener, had to say about the Danish-born star of silent film, who elevated the genre from a …
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