Olinka Hrdy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Olinka Hrdy

American designer and muralist (1902-1987)

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1902

Place of Birth: Prague, Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: muralist, designer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United States

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Olinka Hrdy

  • Olinka Hrdy (1902–1987) was a female artist who was born in Prague, Oklahoma Territory, and became a noted artist in Oklahoma.
  • She graduated in 1928, from the University of Oklahoma (OU), where she majored in art.
  • Her teachers included Oscar Jacobsen and Edith Mahier, who considered her one of their most gifted students.
  • She earned part of the money for her education by painting murals for a restaurant in Norman, Oklahoma, and a set of panels in the women's dormitory at OU.Noted Oklahoma-born architect Bruce Goff discovered Hrdy's artistic talent one day while eating lunch at the OU women's dormitory and asked to meet the artist.
  • They became friends and quickly began to collaborate, as he invited her to paint some murals for the Riverside Studio in Tulsa, which he was designing for a Tulsa musician.
  • After that, he commissioned her to help decorate the Brady Theater in Tulsa (then known as the Tulsa Convention Hall).
  • Her works at both sites have since disappeared. Hrdy moved for a while in the 1930s to New York City, where she applied her artistic talent in designing utilitarian objects like place mats, textiles, radios, wallpaper and even scarves.
  • She was then invited to attend Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen Studio in Wisconsin, but ended her visit there after three months. She moved to Southern California and worked for a while at the start of World War II, but quit her job and opened her own design studio.
  • During this period, she also experienced a brief marriage that apparently ended in divorce.
  • Later, she returned to live in her mother's home in Prague, where she died in 1987.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also