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1917 Austria - 2004 New York, New York. Known for: Folk art motif (Statue of Liberty).
Born in Austria, Bertha Halozan emigrated to the United States in 1954. She first went to Chicago to work as a nanny but was not happy and had trouble with English. She moved to New York to pursue a... Read full biography
Born in Austria, Bertha Halozan emigrated to the United States in 1954. She first went to Chicago to work as a nanny but was not happy and had trouble with English. She moved to New York to pursue a career as a singer and did facials at Helena Rubenstein. She then worked as a physical therapist at... Read full biography
Born in Austria, Bertha Halozan emigrated to the United States in 1954. She first went to Chicago to work as a nanny but was not happy and had trouble with English. She moved to New York to pursue a career as a singer and did facials at Helena Rubenstein. She then worked as a physical therapist at several venues and eventually gave up her career as a singer because “I got a lot of publicity but very little money.” She began painting in 1978 during her rehabilitation following a stroke. Bertha... Read full biography
Born in Austria, Bertha Halozan emigrated to the United States in 1954. She first went to Chicago to work as a nanny but was not happy and had trouble with English. She moved to New York to pursue a career as a singer and did facials at Helena Rubenstein. She then worked as a physical therapist at several venues and eventually gave up her career as a singer because “I got a lot of publicity but very little money.” She began painting in 1978 during her rehabilitation following a stroke. Bertha generally painted repeated subjects – “a pigtailed, blue-eyed Statue of Liberty, surrounded by the busy activities of daily life in New York” often including the Goodyear blimp and a Mets baseball player, John Franco. She frequently included a... Read full biography
Born in Austria, Bertha Halozan emigrated to the United States in 1954. She first went to Chicago to work as a nanny but was not happy and had trouble with English. She moved to New York to pursue a career as a singer and did facials at Helena Rubenstein. She then worked as a physical therapist at several venues and eventually gave up her career as a singer because “I got a lot of publicity but very little money.” She began painting in 1978 during her rehabilitation following a stroke. Bertha generally painted repeated subjects – “a pigtailed, blue-eyed Statue of Liberty, surrounded by the busy activities of daily life in New York” often including the Goodyear blimp and a Mets baseball player, John Franco. She frequently included a helicopter, and houses from an Austrian village with red tile roofs. For several years, she sold her paintings on a Manhattan stre... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty