Mina Arndt

Mina Arndt
Born Hermina Arndt
18 April 1885
Queenstown, New Zealand
Died 22 December 1926 (aged 41)
Nelson, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealander
Known for Painting
Style Modernism
Spouse(s) Lionel Manoy (m. 1917; wid. 1926)

Hermina (Mina) Arndt (18 April 1885 – 22 December 1926) was a New Zealand painter.

Arndt was born at Thurlby Domain, near Queenstown in 1885. As a girl, Arndt's family moved to Dunedin where she attended Otago Girls' High School.[1] In 1906, Arndt was living in London studying under Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art in Kensington. Soon after, Arndt became involved with the Newlyn School, and worked with Stanhope Forbes, Laura and Harold Knight. Later, Arndt showed at the Royal Acaemy and in Paris at the Société des Artistes Français. In 1914, after being briefly interned in Germany after the outbreak of World War II, she returned to New Zealand permanently.[2] She married Lionel Manoy in Wellington on 14 February 1917, and the couple had one son.[3] Arndt died suddenly in 1926 of nephritis.[2]

Gallery

References

  1. Kirker, Anne. New Zealand Women Artists. Reed Methuen, 1986
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ann Calhoun (1992). Macdonald, Charlotte, ed. The book of New Zealand women = Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa (Repr. (twice) ed.). Wellington: Williams. pp. 16 – 19. ISBN 0908912048.
  3. "Manoy, Henry and Manoy, Lionel". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 26 April 2015.