Edith Kramer was born in Vienna, Austria on August 29, 1916. She is a niece of writer Theodor Kramer and actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel. From 1929 to 1934 she attended the reform-pedagogical... Read full biography
Edith Kramer was born in Vienna, Austria on August 29, 1916. She is a niece of writer Theodor Kramer and actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel. From 1929 to 1934 she attended the reform-pedagogical Schwarzwald school. From 1934 to 1938 she was an art student of Friedl Dicker. Among her parents' friends... Read full biography
Edith Kramer was born in Vienna, Austria on August 29, 1916. She is a niece of writer Theodor Kramer and actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel. From 1929 to 1934 she attended the reform-pedagogical Schwarzwald school. From 1934 to 1938 she was an art student of Friedl Dicker. Among her parents' friends were many artists and psychoanalysts such as Siegfried Bernfeld, Wilhelm and Annie Reich. From them, she got inspirations for padagogy inspired by psychoanalysis. After the Nazis gained power she... Read full biography
Edith Kramer was born in Vienna, Austria on August 29, 1916. She is a niece of writer Theodor Kramer and actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel. From 1929 to 1934 she attended the reform-pedagogical Schwarzwald school. From 1934 to 1938 she was an art student of Friedl Dicker. Among her parents' friends were many artists and psychoanalysts such as Siegfried Bernfeld, Wilhelm and Annie Reich. From them, she got inspirations for padagogy inspired by psychoanalysis. After the Nazis gained power she fled to New York where she could establish art therapy in children homes and hospitals, and continue her painting. Later she published the book Childhood and Art Therapy, and taught about art therapy at George Washington University and New York... Read full biography
Edith Kramer was born in Vienna, Austria on August 29, 1916. She is a niece of writer Theodor Kramer and actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel. From 1929 to 1934 she attended the reform-pedagogical Schwarzwald school. From 1934 to 1938 she was an art student of Friedl Dicker. Among her parents' friends were many artists and psychoanalysts such as Siegfried Bernfeld, Wilhelm and Annie Reich. From them, she got inspirations for padagogy inspired by psychoanalysis. After the Nazis gained power she fled to New York where she could establish art therapy in children homes and hospitals, and continue her painting. Later she published the book Childhood and Art Therapy, and taught about art therapy at George Washington University and New York University. She also painted and had many exhibitions. Edith Kramer Played a very important... Read full biography
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About Edith Kramer: Books
Books & Publications (7)
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Art as Therapy: Collected Papers
2001
Kramer, Edith
272 pages (color)
Art as Therapy: Planning and Setting Up Groups
2001
Kramer, Edith
272 pages (color)
Creativity and the Dissociative Patient: Puppets, Narrative and Art in the Treatment of Survivors of Childhood Trauma
1999
Gerity, Lani Alaine; Edith Kramer
149 pages (color)
Childhood and Art Therapy: Notes on Theory and Application
1998
Kramer, Edith and Laurie Wilson
16 pages (color)
Art As Therapy With Children
1993
Kramer, Edith
238 pages (color)
Art Therapy in a Children's Community: A Study of the Function of Art Therapy in the Treatment Program of Wiltwyck School for Boys
1990
Kramer, Edith
238 pages (color)
Indoor How-to-Book of Oats, Peas, Beans and Other Pretty Plants