Maria Kuhn

Also known as Maria Corrie, M. Kuhn
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Kuhn joined the WAAF and served in New Guinea, making many studies there of soldiers in action; afterwards she recreated these in plaster in her Brisbane studio.
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sculptor, won a scholarship to Melbourne Technical College 1937-39, studying Art Course in drawing and painting, sculpture and anatomy. Joined the WAAF and served in New Guinea, making many studies there of soldiers in action; afterwards carried out in plaster at her Brisbane studio – work illustrated in Norman Macgeorge (ed.), The Arts in Australia (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1948): Private Graham Harvey , plaster for bronze p.31, Kokoda Trail , plaster for bronze, pp.32-33, Miss Campbell-Brown and Professor Schindler , plasters for bronze, p.34. Became a lecturer on anatomy at Brisbane Technical College, leaving to prepare an Atlas of Anatomy, 'shortly to be published in London’ (1948). Married in 1945 to Edward Kuhn, Austrian artist in wrought iron.

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1999
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2011

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