Olga Lehmann

Olga Lehmann
Birth name Louise Olga Mary Lehmann
Born 10 February 1912
Catemu, Valparaíso, Chile
Died 26 October 2001(2001-10-26) (aged 89)
Saffron Walden, Essex, England

Olga Lehmann (10 February 1912 – 26 October 2001) was a visual artist.

Born in Catemu, Chile, to Mary Grisel Lehmann (née Bissett) and mining engineer Andrew William Lehmann, Olga Lehmann had one sister, Monica (Monica Pidgeon), and one brother, George (Andrew George Lehmann). She was educated at Santiago College, Santiago, and in 1929 moved to England, where she was awarded a scholarship at the Slade School of Fine Art, London University.

At the Slade she studied fine art under the tutelage of Henry Tonks and Randolph Schwabe, specializing in theatrical design under Vladimir Polunin and in portraiture under Alan Gwynne-Jones.[1][2] Awarded prizes in Life Painting, Composition, and Theatrical Design, she visited Spain in the early thirties; Spanish and Moorish themes were subsequently reflected in her art.

Her productive working life as an artist spanned almost six decades, from the 1930s to the 1980s. Throughout the 1930s she acquired a reputation in the fields of mural painting[3] and portraiture.[4] She exhibited her work at the Royal Portrait Society in 1933, and with the London Group in 1935.[5] Later sitters of note consisted of people associated with the film or record industries such as singers Edric Connor, Carmen Prietto, conductor Richard Austin, and actors Dirk Bogarde and Patrice Wymore.[2] During the Blitz in 1940, her studio-flat in Hampstead was destroyed by a bomb, and much of her early work was lost.

After World War II, her name chiefly became associated with graphic design for the Radio Times, and designing for the film and television industries.[2] In 1939 she married author and editor Richard Carl Huson, by whom she had one son, author and television writer/producer Paul Huson. She was predeceased by her husband in 1984, and she herself died in Saffron Walden, Essex, in 2001.

Contents

Works

Illustration, design, and graphic work

Radio Times illustrations
issue title
01941-06-29 29 June 1941 The Suicide Club meets…
01941-07-11 11 July 1941 Kitchen Front
01941-07-30 30 July 1941 Don’t pass it on, but…
01941-08-08 8 August 1941 The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies, O!
01941-10-12 12 October 1941 But lovelier than the cornfield…
01941-11-20 20 November 1941 The Canterville Ghost
01941-11-23 23 November 1941 Three Sisters
01941-12-15 15 December 1941 The Star in the East
01941-12-28 28 December 1941
–3 January 1942
What the other Listener thinks
01942-01-10 10 January 1942 The Dancers
01942-01-17 17 January 1942 The Dark Charmer
01942-02-01 1 February 1942 And the more I bring off…
01942-03-06 6 March 1942 Easy Murder
01942-03-13 13 March 1942 Gestapo over Europe
01942-03-26 26 March 1942 Pagliacci
01942-04-02 2 April 1942 Grim Fairy Tale
01942-04-08 8 April 1942 Faust
01942-04-26 26 April 1942 Alexander Nevsky
01942-05-03 3 May 1942
–9 May 1942
Japan wants the Earth (cover)
01942-06-14 14 June 1942
–20 June 1942
Carmen (cover)
01942-07-06 6 July 1942 Next of Kin
01942-07-15 15 July 1942 The Words upon the Window Pane
01942-07-21 21 July 1942 Ladies in Retirement
01942-09-04 4 September 1942 Death in the hand
01942-09-09 9 September 1942 Tales of Hoffman
01942-09-30 30 September 1942 The Magic Flute
01942-10-16 16 October 1942 Maude
01942-11-06 6 November 1942 The Beggar Student
01942-12-04 4 December 1942 Ruslan and Ludmilla
01942-12-19 19 December 1942 La traviata
01942-12-18 18 December 1942 Programs up to Boxing Day and Turandot
01943-01-04 4 January 1943 Cinderella
01943-01-20 20 January 1943 The Force of Destiny
01943-01-24 24 January 1943
–30 January 1943
Hassan
01943-02-06 6 February 1943 Madame Butterfly
01943-02-17 17 February 1943 La bohème
01943-02-26 26 February 1943 Robinson Crusoe
01943-03-07 7 March 1943 Liebestraum
01943-03-17 17 March 1943 Fidelio
01943-04-11 11 April 1943
–17 April 2007
Les Cloches
01943-04-29 29 April 1943 Royal Gesture
01943-05-02 2 May 1943 Dona Claries
01943-05-17 17 May 1943 The Wild Duck
01943-06-06 6 June 1943 A Princess of Tartary
01943-06-25 25 June 1943 Master Peter's Puppet Show
01943-08-02 2 August 1943 How to arrange a Concert
01943-09-26 26 September 1943
–2 October 1943
Samson and Delilah
01943-10-17 17 October 1943 Ring up the Curtain
01943-10-27 27 October 1943 Romeo and Juliet
01943-12-22 22 December 1943 The Flying Dutchman
01943-12-26 26 December 1943
–1 January 1944
Cinderella
01944-01-16 16 January 1944 Distant Point
01944-01-19 19 January 1944 Carmen
01944-02-14 14 February 1944 The Hostage
01944-04-23 23 April 1944
–29 April 1944
A Play Toward and Aïda
01944-05-06 6 May 1944 The Man Stayed Alone
01944-06-23 23 June 1944 Alexander Nevsky
01944-06-25 25 June 1944 The Story of the Ballet
01944-06-30 30 June 1944 Romeo and Juliet
01944-09-24 24 September 1944 Emilia
01944-10-07 7 October 1944 The Second Mrs Tanqueray
01944-11-08 8 November 1944 Turandot
01944-11-09 9 November 1944 The Story of the Ballet #2
01944-11-10 10 November 1944 L’Arlesienne
01944-12-04 4 December 1944 Treasure Island
01944-12-26 26 December 1944 Boxing Day (4 corner vignettes)[6]
01945-01-09 9 January 1945 A Voyage to Lilliput
01945-02-11 11 February 1945 The Story of the Ballet #3,
illustration of Sunday Rhapsody
01945-03-28 28 March 1945 Scheherazade
01945-04-25 25 April 1945 The Tale of Tsar Saltan
01945-05-01 1 May 1945 Tuesday Serenade
01945-07-18 18 July 1945 A Princess of Tartary
01945-08-23 23 August 1945 Corner in Crime
01945-08-29 29 August 1945 The Wizard of the Mountain
01945-09-03 3 September 1945 The Wild Duck
01945-09-09 9 September 1945
–15 September 1945
Paul Temple Returns
01945-11-01 1 November 1945 Golden Dragon City
01945-11-21 21 November 1945 Schwanda the Bagpiper
01945-12-19 19 December 1945 Prince Igor
01946-01-30 30 January 1946 Tosca
01946-02-21 21 February 1946 Treasure Island
01946-04-06 6 April 1946 Music for Saturday Night
01946-05-02 2 May 1946 Bounden Duty
01946-08-10 10 August 1946 A Hundred Years Old
01946-09-11 11 September 1946 Lord Mondrago
01946-09-19 19 September 1946 It Might Have Been the Moon
01946-09-22 22 September 1946
–28 September 1946
La bohème
01946-11-06 6 November 1946 Pagliacci
01946-12-05 5 December 1946 The Turn of the Screw
01946-12-21 21 December 1946 Children in Uniform
01946-12-28 28 December 1946 Androcles and the Lion.
01947-02-10 10 February 1947 Biography
01947-03-15 15 March 1947 Save him, Doctor…
01947-03-22 22 March 1947 Mary Rose
01947-04-05 5 April 1947 The Silver Cord
01947-04-21 21 April 1947 The Laughing Woman
01947-06-11 11 June 1947 The Man who was Thursday
01947-06-21 21 June 1947 To What Red Hell
01947-09-07 7 September 1947 The Poet and the Child
01947-09-13 13 September 1947 If
01947-10-08 8 October 1947 The Flying Dutchman
01947-10-16 16 October 1947 Beyond the Night
01947-11-24 24 November 1947 The Narrow Corner
01948-01-18 18 January 1948
–24 January 1948
Xerxes
01948-02-12 12 February 1948 The Black Cap has to wait
01948-05-05 5 May 1948 Eugene Onegin
01948-06-08 8 June 1948 The Family from One-End Street
01948-08-02 2 August 1948 The Lost Horizon
01948-08-30 30 August 1948 The Healing Stream
01948-09-28 28 September 1948 The first post will be opened tonight
01948-11-09 9 November 1948 Focus on Old Age
01949-01-02 2 January 1949 Scamps in Paradise
01949-01-18 18 January 1949 Focus on Child Adoption
01949-03-25 25 March 1949 The Great Ruby Ming
01949-07-22 22 July 1949 Bizet's Carmen
01949-07-28 28 July 1949 The Rise and Decline of Johnny Godwin
01949-08-14 14 August 1949
–20 August 1949
The Story of ‘Lulu.’
01950-08-26 26 August 1950 Point of Honour
01950-09-01 1 September 1950 Summer Showtime
01950-09-15 15 September 1950 Promenade Concert
01950-12-26 26 December 1950 Boxing Day, two double-spreads
01951-04-20 20 April 1951 Stars from the Shows
01951-07-18 18 July 1951 Shanties and Forebitters
01951-08-05 5 August 1951 Summer Showtime
01951-08-17 17 August 1951 Songs from the Shows
01951-10-01 1 October 1951 The Bottom of the Well.
01952-03-02 2 March 1952 Dona Clarines
01952-06-14 14 June 1952 Cried the Sparrow
01952-07-04 4 July 1952 Songs from the Shows
01952-07-31 31 July 1952 Summer Rain
01952-10-13 13 October 1952 Pagliacci.
01953-02-15 15 February 1953 La traviata
01953-07-01 1 July 1953 The Flower in the Rock
01953-07-26 26 July 1953 The Lady from Albuquerque
01953-10-10 10 October 1953 The Laughing Woman.
01954-07-25 25 July 1954
–31 July 1954
The Flying Dutchman
01954-09-14 14 September 1954 The Turn of the Screw
01954-10-11 11 October 1954 The Turn of the Screw
01954-10-17 17 October 1954 The Dark Eyed Sailor.
01955-02-26 26 February 1955 The Cat and the Canary
01955-04-12 12 April 1955 A Vegetarian Dish for April
01955-09-30 30 September 1955 The Turn of the Screw
01955-10-03 3 October 1955 From Morn to Midnight
01955-12-30 30 December 1955 Music at Ten
01955-12-31 31 December 1955 New Year's Eve, triple spread.
01956-06-11 11 June 1956 Journey to Venezuela
01956-11-30 30 November 1956 Memories of a Street of Artists
01956-12-16 16 December 1956 The Lost Horizon.
01957-01-13 13 January 1957 A Hundred Years Old
01957-07-17 17 July 1957 Murder at Elstree
01957-07-19 19 July 1957 Australian Saga
01957-09-21 21 September 1957 Ruslan and Ludmilla
01957-09-26 26 September 1957 Stories and Music from the Ballet.
01958-01-25 25 January 1958 A Time of the Serpent
01958-03-21 21 March 1958 Samson and Delilah
01958-12-21 21 December 1958
–27 December 1958
Chu-Chin-Chow
01958-12-21 21 December 1958 The Wraiths.
01959-04-25 25 April 1959 Lost Love
01959-06-29 29 June 1959 Shadow of a Pale Horse
01959-08-02 2 August 1959 Enter Three Witches
01959-11-29 29 November 1959
–5 December 1959
Where William Weare was Murdered.
01960-07-23 23 July 1960 A Play for the Guide Festival
01960-12-23 23 December 1960 Scamps in Paradise
01960-12-31 31 December 1960 New Year's Eve, triple page spread.

Murals

[4]

Film, television, and theatrical design

[2][9][10]

Exhibitions

One-woman

[2]

Mixed

[2]

Collections

[2]

Record sleeves

Created for Argo Records (UK), 1954 - 1957[12]

References

  1. ^ The Slade 1871-1971, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1971.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Who's Who in Art, "Olga Lehmann", pp. 347-348, Michigan: The Gale Group, 2002.
  3. ^ Contemporary Mural Painters: Miss Olga Lehmann. The Decorator, London, July, 1941.
  4. ^ a b Spalding, Frances, Dictionary of British Art, Volume VI: 20th Century Painter and Sculptors, "Olga Lehmann", p. 295, Suffolk: The Antique Collector's Club Ltd., 1990, ISBN 1854191066.
  5. ^ The Royal Society of British Artists: An Open Assembly, London, 1954.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Connelly, Bill, Olga Lehmann, Imaginative Book Illustration Society Newsletter, No 15, Summer 2000.
  7. ^ Jackson, L.: Twentieth-Century Pattern Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
  8. ^ Quinn, Andrew H.: Corsham Murals. Cultural Heritage, Defense Estates Annual Report, 2001, Ministry of Defense.
  9. ^ Leese, Elizabeth: Costume Design in the Movies, "Olga Lehmann". Frederick Ungar Publications. New York, 1976, 1983.
  10. ^ Olga Lehmann at the Internet Movie Database.
  11. ^ Soren, D.: Vera-Ellen: The Magic and the Mystery, Luminary Press, Midnight Marquee Press, Inc., 2003. ISBN 1887664483.
  12. ^ Scott, G.; Miles, B.; Morgan, J.: The Greatest Album Covers of All Time, "Under Milk Wood", London: Collins & Brown, 2005. ISBN 1843403013.

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