1. Emma Bormann's father, Eugen Bormann, was an archaeologist and a professor of ancient Roman history and epigraphy at the University of Vienna.
15 Facts About Emma Bormann
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Emma Bormann received a doctorate in prehistory at the same university in 1917.
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Emma Bormann pursued interests in athletics and drama as well, but art was to be her true calling.
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Emma Bormann went to Munich in 1917 and enrolled in art classes for one semester before becoming an art teacher herself.
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Emma Bormann quickly mastered this medium and developed a unique style that blended expressionism and impressionism and combined respect for traditional woodcut craft with a more modern sensibility.
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Emma Bormann's 1936 visit to the United States resulted in memorable views of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Niagara Falls.
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Emma Bormann's works include many images of her native country as well, views of Vienna and other places in Austria, such as Salzburg and the countryside of Salzburg province.
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Emma Bormann taught courses in drawing, figure drawing, and linocut techniques as a lecturer at the University of Vienna from 1926 to 1939.
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In 1950 Emma Bormann left Shanghai, traveling across Japan, Hawaii, and the United States back to Europe.
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Emma Bormann would make further visits to Europe, but did not live there again.
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Emma Bormann made her last woodcuts some time in the late 1950s or 1960s; after this point she no longer had the strength in her arms for carving.
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Emma Bormann continued to sketch, paint, cut paper silhouettes and took up other media, such as stencil printing and mosaics.
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Emma Bormann studied and adapted a Japanese stencil printing technique.
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Emma Bormann made a series of stencil prints showing the dancers and musicians of the Japanese imperial court.
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From 1958 until her death, Emma Bormann traveled back and forth regularly between Japan and Riverside, California, where her second daughter Jorun had settled.