Violet Dreschfeld

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

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

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. Paris: Editions Grund. 2006. ISBN 2 7000 3074 5.