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Edith Caspary London

Edith Caspary London (1904 - 1997) was active/lived in North Carolina / Europe.  Edith London is known for Abstract expressionist and cubist painting, collages.

EDITH CASPARY LONDON (1904-1997)

Edith Caspary’s exposure to art began as a child in Berlin; her extended family included writers and sculptors, who enjoyed the lively cultural milieu of the Weimar Republic in the interwar period. Between 1929 and 1931, London attended the University of Berlin, took classes at Berlin’s Federation of Women Artists, and was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse. Matisse’s impact on her developing aesthetic was “enormous,” as London recounted towards the end of her career: “This is what I have learned from Matisse: that color and form can be created independently of the object.”

Edith married a noted theoretical physicist, Fritz London, in 1929 and together they spent a year in Rome. With the ascendancy of Nazism, the Londons, who were Jewish, fled Germany in 1933 and moved to Oxford, England, followed by nearly three years in Paris, 1936–1939. As Hitler’s religious and intellectual persecution escalated, Fritz became one of many   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3514 characters.]  Artist bio

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