Violet Dreschfeld

Violet Jennie Dreschfeld (1890–1975) was a British artist known for her portrait sculptures.

Violet Jennie Dreschfeld
Born1890
Chorlton, Manchester
Died1975 (aged 84–85)
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture

Biography

Dreschfeld was born and grew up in the Chorlton suburb of Manchester, one of three children to Selina and Julius Dreschfeld, a German-born physician, who became a Professor of Pathology.[1][2] Violet Dreschfeld studied sculpture in London, where she was based in the 1910s. She was active throughout that decade producing portrait busts, particularly of female subjects.[3][4] From 1929 she began exhibiting at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[5]

References
  1. Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978 1 911121 63 3.
  2. "Julius Dreschfeld, 1846-1907". Manchester Medical Collection: Biographical Files A-G. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553.
  4. University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "V.J. Dreschfeld". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  5. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 4 Cossintino-Dyck. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2 7000 3074 5.
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