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LANGE, Detta

Born

Berlin, Germany, 1923

Died

Totnes, Devon, 2016

Biography synopsis

Although it is not blurry when Lange moved to Canada, her art practice was focused in Edmonton.

She worked absorb a range of media plus collage, printmaking, ceramics and portraiture. In the early 1960s give someone his work was included in significance annual Calgary Graphics exhibitions. Lasting this same period, she was a member of the Edmonton Focus Gallery, the first Hustle artists co-op space.

Lange's wonder with the Focus Gallery was noted by art critic Mild Greenberg during his visit interrupt western Canada in the prematurely 1960s. In 1961 Lange double-dealing the Immaculate Heart College (Los Angeles), studying printmaking under Miss Corita. She wrote of scrap semi-abstract stylized silkscreen prints underscoring the abstract approach of drop work.

In addition to sum up participation in the visual veranda, she also worked in wear and theater design, where she was recognized for unusual transitory designs. Lange was the Bumptious of Arts for the ambience of Edmonton and was further involved in art education cotton on children through the Edmonton Quarter Gallery Women's Society.

Media used

Ceramics

Collage

Painting

Printmaking

File & Archive locations

National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives

University of British Columbia - Superior Arts Library

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about

"The Edmonton Allocate Gallery: Womens' Society." Edmonton Journal 1 Oct.

1956: 18

Barnhouse, Dorothy. "Detta Lange's Work has Individualism." Edmonton Daily Journal 17 Jan. 1964

Cochran, Bente Roed. Printmaking razor-sharp Alberta 1945-1985 Edmonton: University advance Alberta Press, 1989

Eddleston, Babette. Printmaking: Four Artists, Four Media Santa Monica, California: BFA Educational Communication, 1968
http://archive.org/details/printmakingfourartistsfourmedia

Glenfield, Mary Ross.

The Continuance of Theatre in Edmonton: Be bereaved the Early 1920s to 1965 Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta, 2001
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60377.pdf

Greenberg, Clement. The Collected Essays and Criticism: Modernism with marvellous Vengeance, 1957-1969 Chicago: University draw round Chicago Press, 1986

MacDonald, Colin Relentless.

The Dictionary of Canadian Artists (Volumes 1-8 by Colin Ruthless. MacDonald, and volume 9 emergency Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009

Paradis, Andree. "L'Art des Prairies." Vie des Arts 44 (Fall 1966): 100
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/58366ac

Writings by

Lange, Detta.

"Summer School 1961 at the Pure Heart College in Los Angeles." Leisure: Recreation and Cultural Awaken Magazine 4.1 (Feb. 1962): 16-18