When was valerie ganz born

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Artist and teacher, born at Mumbles, near Swansea, who studied painting, sculpture and stained glass at the College of Art there, remaining as a tutor, —73, when she returned to full-time painting. Ganz became preoccupied by the landscape of south Wales, concentrating on industrial, especially mining, areas. In Ganz took a house and studio at Six Bells, Abertillery, for nearly a year depicting the lives of the miners at its colliery, underground and on the surface, with their families at choir practice, in the snooker halls and at chapel.

The work was widely exhibited, notably at the mining show at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, in New stories, newly added artworks and shop offers delivered straight to your inbox every week. Created with Sketch. About Discover Learn Support us. She attended Swansea College of Art and studied painting, sculpture and stained glass. She remained as a tutor until when she turned her attention to painting full time.

As her interest in the landscape of South Wales grew, her attention was drawn to the landscape of industrial areas and, in particular, the mining industry, over a period of many years, she worked at fourteen different collieries. During her career she has studied many and varied subjects all over the world. In she took a house and studio at Six Bells, Abertillery.

For a year she worked at the Six Bells Colliery, alongside the miners both above ground and at the coalface. In the evening she made studies of the miners and their families at choir practice, in the snooker halls and in the chapel. Following her time at Six Bells a commission from British Coal led to a year working at three open cast sites culminating in a large exhibition.

Many visits to South America where she painted and quite recently worked with the oil industry where she travelled out into the desert from Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina to paint oil rigs and their workers. End of the shift - Returning from the coalface, Miners from Tower Colliery, Horwaun, Bathing.

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Valerie Ganz Welsh, — Biography Valerie Ganz was a Welsh genre painter known for her expressive depictions of dancers and miners. The miners soon trusted me and I tried not to disrupt the routine of their work. The artist died on September 28, in Swansea, United Kingdom.

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