Olga Lehmann

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

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

Early life

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). Her father was of German and French descent (born in Paris) and her mother was Scottish.[1] She was educated at Santiago College, Santiago, and in 1929 moved to England, where she was awarded a scholarship to 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 Allan Gwynne-Jones.[2][3] 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.

The Dark Avenger costume design by Olga Lehmann, 1954.

Career

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[4] and portraiture.[5] She exhibited her work at the Royal Portrait Society in 1933, and with the London Group in 1935.[6] 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.[3] 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.[3] In 1939 she married author and editor Richard Carl Huson, by whom she had one son, author and television writer and producer Paul Huson. She was predeceased by her husband in 1984, and she herself died in Saffron Walden, Essex, in 2001.

Works

Illustration, design, and graphic work

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

Murals

[5]

Film, television, and theatrical design

[3][10][11]

Exhibitions

One-woman

[3]

Mixed

[3]

Collections

[3]

Record sleeves

Created for Argo Records (UK), 1954 - 1957[14]

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ The Slade 1871-1971, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1971.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Who's Who in Art, "Olga Lehmann", pp. 347-348, Michigan: The Gale Group, 2002.
  4. ↑ Contemporary Mural Painters: Miss Olga Lehmann. The Decorator, London, July, 1941.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 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 1-85419-106-6 .
  6. ↑ The Royal Society of British Artists: An Open Assembly, London, 1954.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 Connelly, Bill, Olga Lehmann, Imaginative Book Illustration Society Newsletter, No 15, Summer 2000.
  8. ↑ Jackson, L.: Twentieth-Century Pattern Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
  9. ↑ Quinn, Andrew H.: Corsham Murals. Cultural Heritage, Defense Estates Annual Report, 2001, Ministry of Defense.
  10. ↑ Leese, Elizabeth: Costume Design in the Movies, "Olga Lehmann". Frederick Ungar Publications. New York, 1976, 1983.
  11. ↑ Olga Lehmann at the Internet Movie Database.
  12. ↑ Soren, D.: Vera-Ellen: The Magic and the Mystery, Luminary Press, Midnight Marquee Press, Inc., 2003. ISBN 1-887664-48-3.
  13. ↑ Halligan, F.:Movie Story Boards - The Art of Visualizing Screenplays, pp 62-67, Chronicle Books LLC, 2013. ISBN 981-1-4521-2219-9
  14. ↑ Scott, G.; Miles, B.; Morgan, J.: The Greatest Album Covers of All Time, "Under Milk Wood", London: Collins & Brown, 2005. ISBN 1-84340-301-3.

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