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Jane Campion
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Katharina II, die Große
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Lucie Mannheim
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born on May 1, 1874 in Rome, Italy
died on December 7, 1970 in Nice, France
US-American painter
150th birthday on May 1, 2024
When 36-year-old Romaine Brooks exhibited for the first time at the famous Parisian gallery Durand-Ruel in 1910, she was immediately a great success. Her pictures of slender, sad-looking young women, painted entirely in blue-gray or beige-brown tones, appealed to the sophisticated public, who then clamored to be portrayed by her.
She painted many celebrities. Among her most outstanding works are portraits of Nathalie Barney, Una Troubridge, Elisabeth de Gramont, Renata Borgatti as well as her self-portraits; such a series of lesbian portraits is unique in art history. She painted the androgynous profiles of women wearing men’s suits and with severe short haircuts, top hats, and stiff collars, thus boldly capturing in oils the lesbian self-presentation of the 1920s with a certain ironic detachment (from which she did not exclude herself).
The daughter of an American millionaire, Brooks had spent an unhappy childhood and her adolescence in many different European hotels,…read more
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Marlene Stenten
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Monica Bleibtreu
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Audrey Hepburn
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born on August 19, 1858 in London, England
died on May 4, 1924 in New Romney, Kent, England
British writer and socialist
100th anniversary of her death on May 4, 2024
Edith Nesbit is considered one of the most important children's authors in England, if not the world. Today experts view her books as classics and, one hundred years after their publication, they are still loved by children everywhere. My local library has them displayed on the shelf reserved for particularly popular books.
Edith Nesbit was the youngest of six children born in a well-to-do family in London. However, her father died early and her mother had to earn a living for the family. As a result, the children grew up in relative freedom, encountering few parental restrictions. This experience is reflected in Nesbit's stories: she usually chose to have a team of enterprising siblings embark on realistic (the Treasure Seekers trilogy about the Bastable children, The Railway Children) or highly original fantasy adventures (the Psammead trilogy).
Edith attended various boarding schools and, pregnant with child, married the socialist Hubert Bland at the age of 21. Together…read more
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Marewna (Maria Worobjowa-Stebelskaja)
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born on May 4, 1924 in Beschitz, Russia
died on November 23, 1993 in San Francisco, during a concert
Russian-Soviet pianist and composer
100th birthday on May 4, 2024
The artist considered it a "stroke of especially good fortune" that her mother was a pianist who had founded a music school in the small town where Nikolayeva lived. She encouraged her daughter as best as she could, and never demanded too much from the child.
At the age of thirteen, Tatiana was admitted by competitive examination to the famous Central Secondary School of Music in Moscow, the school attended before entrance to the Conservatory proper, from which outstanding musicians have emerged. Only 25 out of 600 applicants were accepted, and her mother had already purchased a return ticket as a precaution, but her daughter passed with flying colors.
Tatiana Nikolayeva went on to study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and graduated in 1947 as a prize-winning pianist with numerous awards. But she felt the urge to continue learning, and shortly thereafter she re-enrolled at the Conservatory in order to study composition. In 1959 she was offered a teaching position…read more
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Nellie Bly
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Juliana von Oranien-Nassau
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