Emma Bormann's art was vibrant, and her life too was unusual. She traveled widely in Europe and Asia, and spent the years 1939-1950 in China. Later she lived in Tokyo and in Riverside, California, where she died.
I would like to alert my readers to a new book on the neglected Austrian Expressionist artist Emma Bormann (1887-1974), by her grandson Andreas Johns, The Art of Emma Bormann, published by Ariadne Press in 2016.
Emma Bormann, Universität in GroningenWoodcut, 1922
Emma Bormann's art was vibrant, and her life too was unusual. She traveled widely in Europe and Asia, and spent the years 1939-1950 in China. Later she lived in Tokyo and in Riverside, California, where she died.
Emma Bormann's art was vibrant, and her life too was unusual. She traveled widely in Europe and Asia, and spent the years 1939-1950 in China. Later she lived in Tokyo and in Riverside, California, where she died.