Ninon Soyer
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Helga Marxmüller
(printmaker, author and mycologist)
(printmaker, author and mycologist)
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| Beetle on gras by Kono Bairei (1844-1895) |
An educated guess is she's the daughter of painter and graphic artists Anton Marxmüller (1898-1984) and was taught by her father while he was a professor in Munich (above). As an artist she uses the (French) pseudonym Ninon Soyer, as an author and botanist Helga Marxmüller.
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| Otto Laible: drawing class. |
Her name can be found in connection (author and illustrations) with mushrooms (mycology), suggesting she is/was working as or was trained a botanist.
Please send other examples an biographical facts on this nice artist for sharing.
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There's a bit of biography about Helga Marxmüller here, from last December, when she won a prize for her work on fungi:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.badw.de/die-akademie/presse/pressemitteilungen/pm-einzelartikel/detail/feierliche-jahressitzung-der-bayerischen-akademie-der-wissenschaften.html
"Helga Marxmüller wurde in Burghausen geboren. Nach dem Abitur in Paris und dem Studium
an den Akademien der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe und München war sie von 1964 bis 1976
als Kunsterzieherin am Gymnasium in Traunstein tätig. Anschließend wirkte sie als freischaffende
Künstlerin in München"
I'm not absolutley convinced she's the same person as Ninon Soyer; although one ebay seller says she is, another just describes Soyer as a pupil of Laible and Marxmüller.
http://www.eart.de/eigen/displayartist.cfm?ArtistID=9464
Thank you Archimandrill. I was indeed trying to put one and one together. Someday, with help like this, it will be clear(ed).
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