Emilie Cosman, known as Milein Cosman, was a German-born British artist.
11 Facts About Milein Cosman
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Milein Cosman was best known for her graphic work of leading cultural figures, dancers and musicians in action, such as Francis Bacon, Mikhail Baryshnikov, T S Eliot and Igor Stravinsky.
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Between 1939 and 1942, Milein Cosman studied at the Slade School of Art.
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Milein Cosman began book illustration and working as a freelance artist, while continuing to teach evening classes for the WEA and working for the American Broadcasting Station in Europe.
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Milein Cosman contributed drawings to national and international magazines and newspapers, including the BBC's Radio Times.
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In 1947, Milein Cosman met the Viennese-born musician, writer, broadcaster and teacher Hans Keller, whom she married in 1961.
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Hans and Milein Cosman lived in Hampstead, where their friends included the artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky.
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Milein Cosman made a series of schools programmes on drawing for ITV in 1958.
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In 2006, Milein Cosman founded the Milein Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust, which aims to support young musicians and artists as well as publishing, exhibiting and archiving her own and Hans Keller's work.
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In 2014, a documentary film about Milein Cosman, directed by Christoph Boll, premiered in Dusseldorf in her presence.
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Milein Cosman bequeathed a set of over 1300 drawings to the Royal College of Music, London.