Hannah Weinberger
The first woman winemaker from the United States to be given an award on the world stage, who produced the first California wine to ever be awarded an international medal.
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Anne Bohm
Dean of the Graduate School at the London School of Economics for 20 years – but was never granted the title.
Julia Frankau
Irish art historian and novelist
Dorothy Michaelis Theomin
New Zealand philanthropist
Marie Blaschke
Jewish cellist Marie Blaschke sought refuge in New Zealand from persecution, arriving in 1939. Vandewart made a considerable impact as a concert artist and taught at the University of Auckland’s School of Music for 15 years from 1961.
Lili Kraus
Hungarian-born pianist Lili Kraus (1903–86) was another musician whose flight from the horrors of the Second World War enriched New Zealand’s musical life. She was imprisoned by Japanese forces in Indonesia in 1942. After the war she made New Zealand her home for some years and became a citizen. Kraus resumed her international touring career in 1948.
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Peggy Guggenheim
After fleeing Nazi France in 1942, she opened the gallery Art of This Century in New York City. In 1943, Guggenheim held the first collection of the soon to be star of her gallery, Jackson Pollock.
Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov remains an influential poet of the mid-twentieth century American group known as the Black Mountain School.
Mina Loy
She consorted with the major 20th-century avant-garde movements—Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and wrote poems, plays, and experimental prose; created drawings, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages; designed lampshades, toys, Christmas lights, cleaning tools, and corselets.