Ida Gertrude Eise - Artist Info

About Ida Gertrude Eise

  • Biography

    Eise, Ida Gertrude
    1891–1978
    Art teacher, artist
    This biography, written by Elizabeth S. Wilson, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1998.

    Ida Gertrude Eise was born on 9 September 1891 in Auckland, the daughter of Emma Mary Ann Cox and her husband, Frederick George Eise, a warehouseman. Nothing is known of her life until she was admitted to Elam School of Art as a day student in November 1906. She remained there until 1915, and trained in life studies under Edward Friström.

    By May 1915 Ida Eise was teaching art at New Plymouth Technical College. There she organised a craft department, where her pupils worked with enamel, copper and silver. In 1915...

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