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Milein Cosman was born in Gotha , Germany , but spent a part of her childhood in Düsseldorf . Between 1937 and 1939 she went to school in Switzerland , at the École D'Humanité and the International School Of Geneva . She came to England in 1939 . Once in the UK , she attended the Slade School Of Art (located in Oxford during the war years), where she studied drawing under Randolph Schwab and Lithography under Harold Jones . In 1943 she attended evening classes at the Polytechnic at Oxford, where she was taught by Bernard Meninsky . For two years from 1943, Milein Cosman worked on a Milk Float and taught French and Art at a convent school. In the evenings she gave lectures on Art for the Workers' Educational Association . In 1945 , however, she moved to London where, while continuing to teach evening classes for the WEA, Red Cross and WMCA, she also worked for the American Broadcasting Station In Europe . In 1946, she began to to illustrate books, and to work as a freelance artist contributing drawings to magazines and newspapers. Her speciality was producing drawings of musicians and dancers, often sketching very rapidly during a rehearsal or performance. It was while on an assigment to draw the conductor and singers at a concert that she met the musician and writer Hans Keller , whom she subsequently married. The couple remained together until Keller's death in 1985; during this time she illustrated some of his work, and drew and painted many portraits of him. Milein Cosman made a series of educational TV programmes about drawing in 1958. In all, she has had nearly two dozen solo shows. Her work has been acquired by the British Museum , the Victoria And Albert Museum , the National Portrait Gallery , the Ashmolean Museum , the Fitzwilliam Museum , the Hunterian , the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf and the Centre for Fine Arts (BoZar) of Brussels. BOOKS PRODUCED OR ILLUSTRATED BY MILEIN COSMAN Hans Keller and Donald Mitchell (eds) (with drawings by Milein Cosman): ''Benjamin Britten Symposium'' (London, 1952) ''A Musical Sketchbook'' (1957) Neville Cardus (with drawings by Milein Cosman): ''A Composer's Eleven'' (London, 1958; ISBN 0-8369-1554-2) (with Hans Keller): 'Stravinsky at Rehearsal' (1962; published in Germany as 'Stravinsky Dirigiert') (with Hans Keller): ''1975 (1984 minus 9)'' (London, 1977) (with Hans Keller): ''Stravinsky Seen and Heard'' (Toccata Press, 1982; ISBN 0-907689-02-7). SOLO SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS 1949: Bekeley Gardens, London 1957: Matthiessen Gallery, London 1970: Theatre des Champs-Elysees (Festival International de Danse, British Council), Paris 1988: Stadtmuseum, Dusseldorf 1996: Belgrave Gallery, London EXTERNAL LINKS |
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