Frank Wilkinson, Defiant Figure of Red Scare, Dies at 91. Christina, Queen of Sweden. Clara Schumann. Clara Schumann (née Clara Josephine Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era.
She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann. Not Your Grandmother’s Grandmothers. Russian Memoirists Offer Courageous Perspectives of Women By Benjamin Ivry.
Portrait of a Cross-Dresser, 1792. Chevalier d’Eon by Thomas Stewart, after Jean Laurent Mosnier.
2.16.10: The story of Horace (known as Jim) and Rosa. Within a few weeks Greasley and Rosa were conducting their affair in broad daylight and virtually under the noses of the German guards – snatching meetings for trysts in the camp workshops and wherever else they could find.
But at the end of a year, just as he was realising how much he cared for Rosa, Greasley was transferred to Freiwaldau, an annex of Auschwitz, some 40 miles away. The only way to carry on the love affair was to break out of his camp. Zinaida Serebriakova. Self-portrait: At the Dressing-Table (1909) Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray)[1] (Russian: Зинаи́да Евге́ньевна Серебряко́ва, Ukrainian: Зінаїда Євгенівна Серебрякова; 12 December [O.S. 30 November] 1884 – 19 September 1967) was among the first female Russian painters of distinction.
Family[edit] Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of Russia's most refined and artistic families. She belonged to the artistic Benois family. Shooting Gallery, 1936-2009. Jean Giraud, or Moebius, dies at 73; master comics artist. Jean Giraud, an enduring figure in European comics whose fantasy and sci-fi work — which he signed with his alias, Moebius — deeply influenced alien-world imagery throughout pop culture, has died.
He was 73. Giraud died Friday night or Saturday morning after a battle with cancer, according to a statement from his publishing house, Dargaud, which went on to say the comics world had lost "one of its greatest masters. " In his native France, where for decades comics have attracted an older readership, Giraud is considered his country's most important figure in cartooning. His signature creation is "Les Aventures de Blueberry," the Old West saga that debuted in 1963 and followed a peripatetic U.S. Cavalry lieutenant nicknamed Blueberry.
Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang told Reuters on Saturday that Giraud's legacy is a singular one. Still, he was a bit player in Hollywood and a superstar of the page and canvas. "You don't always need to go far. Geoff.boucher@latimes.com. Elizabeth Catlett dies at 96; among 20th century's top black artists. Elizabeth Catlett, a sculptor and printmaker who was widely considered one of the most important African American artists of the 20th century despite having lived most of her life in Mexico, has died.
She was 96. Catlett, whose sculptures became symbols of the civil rights movement, died Monday at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, said her eldest son, Francisco. Her imposing blend of art and social consciousness mirrored that of German painter Max Beckmann, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and other artists of the mid-20th century who used art to critique power structures. From the start of her career, Catlett "was part of a broad political milieu" that encompassed artists of many ethnicities who were committed to social justice, Melanie Anne Herzog, who wrote the 2000 biography "Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico," told The Times in 2005.
"I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women," Catlett told the St. Flora Tristan. Flora Tristan, socialist writer and activist Flora Tristan (7 April 1803 in Paris – 14 November 1844 in Bordeaux, France) was a socialist writer and activist.
She was one of the founders of modern feminism. She wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838), Promenades in London (1840), and The Workers' Union (1843). Tristan was the grandmother of the painter Paul Gauguin. Family tree[edit] Suffragette Surveillance, 1913. “In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera, to covertly photograph suffragettes.
The pictures were compiled into ID sheets for officers on the ground. Lilian Lenton. Lilian Lenton in a Home Office surveillance photograph of c.1912 Lilian Ida Lenton (5 January 1891 – 28 October 1972) was an English dancer, suffragist, arsonist, and winner of a French Red Cross medal for her service as an Orderly in World War I.[1] Early years[edit] 'Lillie' Lenton was born in Leicester in 1891, the eldest of five children born to Isaac Lenton (1867 –), a carpenter-joiner, and his wife Mahalah (née Bee) (1864–1920).
On leaving school she trained to be a dancer, but, after hearing Emmeline Pankhurst speak, she " ... made up my mind that night that as soon as I was twenty-one and my own boss ... I would volunteer".[2] On attaining that age, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union, and with fellow members took part in a window-smashing campaign in March 1912. Notoriety[edit] Mamie Van Doren. Jayne Mansfield. Isamu Noguchi.
Sofia Kovalevskaya. Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская) (15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.[1] There are several alternative transliterations of her name. She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky), for her academic publications.
Alexandra Tolstaya. Alexandra (Sasha) Lvovna Tolstaya (Russian: Александра Львовна Толстая; 18 July 1884 – 26 September 1979) was the youngest daughter and secretary of the noted Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.[1][2][3][4] The Bolsheviks imprisoned Alexandra in 1920, but she was installed as the director of the Tolstoy museum in Yasnaya Polyana the next year. She left the Soviet Union in 1929, and settled in the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation. John Fairfax obituary: Adventurer dies at 74. After adventurer John Fairfax became the first person in recorded history to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, he said he couldn't have done it without the help of "a great teacher," a pirate. The navigational skills needed for his six-month trip in 1969 from the Canary Islands to Florida had been honed during Fairfax's three years as a buccaneering smuggler, he later said.
In 1972, Fairfax once again made history when he and his girlfriend became the first known people to cross the Pacific Ocean by rowboat. During the yearlong 8,000-mile trek from San Francisco to Australia, Fairfax survived a shark attack and a cyclone. Sophia Tolstaya. Tura Satana. 8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks.
As any nerd can tell you, being smarter than everyone else has a price. Poor social skills, being grossly over or under weight, being terrible at sports. Skin problems, probably bad eyesight ... you get the idea.