1. Elisabeth Frink was born in November 1930 at her paternal grandparents' home The Grange in Great Thurlow, a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England.
21 Facts About Elisabeth Frink
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Elisabeth Frink's parents were Ralph Cuyler Frink and Jean Elisabeth.
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When Southlands School was commandeered for the war effort in 1943 Elisabeth Frink became a full time pupil at The Convent of the Holy Family School.
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Elisabeth Frink studied at the Guildford School of Art, under Willi Soukop, and at the Chelsea School of Art.
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Elisabeth Frink was part of a postwar group of British sculptors, dubbed the Geometry of Fear school, that included Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows, Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi.
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Elisabeth Frink created a bookrest in the form of an eagle, for the lectern of the new Coventry Cathedral, as well as a canopy for its Bishop's throne.
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Tirelessly, Elisabeth Frink continued to accept commissions and sculpt, as well as serve on advisory committees, meet art students who had expressed an interest in her work, and pursue other public commitments.
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Elisabeth Frink kept up this hectic pace of sculpting and exhibiting until early 1991, when an operation for cancer of the oesophagus caused an enforced break.
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However, short weeks later Elisabeth Frink was again creating sculptures and preparing for solo exhibitions.
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Again, Elisabeth Frink did not let this hold her back, proceeding with a planned trip for exhibitions to New Orleans, Louisiana, and New York City.
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The exhibitions were a success, but Elisabeth Frink's health was clearly deteriorating.
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Between 1959 and 1972 Elisabeth Frink exhibited with regularity at the Waddington Galleries.
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In 1974, Elisabeth Frink began exhibiting with Beaux Arts.
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In 1985, a retrospective of Elisabeth Frink's work was held at the Royal Academy of Art, London.
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Elisabeth Frink married Michel Jammet in 1955: their son was born in 1958 and the marriage was dissolved in 1963.
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Dame Elisabeth Frink died of cancer on 18 April 1993, aged 62.
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Permission from the Elisabeth Frink Estate was given to name a new school after her, because it was to continue the tradition which she represented.
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Elisabeth Frink was one of five 'Women of Achievement' selected for a set of British stamps issued in August 1996.
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Works by Elisabeth Frink are held in the collections of the Jerwood Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, The Priseman Seabrook Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Elisabeth Frink was chosen as the subject of the British Art Medal Society medal in 1992.
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Elisabeth Frink's sculptures were featured in the 1963 science fiction film The Damned, directed by Joseph Losey.