Mary Duras
Other names: Mary Duraš, Mary Durasova-Kopfova, Mary Durasova
Born 1898
Died 1982
Active: 1939 - 1945
Country of birth and death: Austria
Sculptor
Born in Vienna. Mary Durasova-Kopfova was also known as Mary Durasova. For most of her career she lived and worked in Prague, Czechoslovakia. However, during the Second World war she moved to London where she abbreviated her name to Mary Duras (or Duraš). Having returned to Prague after the war, she escaped to Hamburg from the Czechoslovakian (CSSR) government during the 1960s. After the death of her husband (Arnold Schück) she lived in Graz where she died in 1982.
Works
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Crouching Girl
1941 (Presumed)
Mask
1941 (Presumed)
The Rt Hon. Winston Churchill
1941 (Presumed)
Girl at the window
1945
After bathing
1945
Locations
Address Russellvue London Road Wendover Dean | View on map
1940
Address Small Dean Wendover | View on map
1941 - 1945
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / Manchester City Art Gallery), 1942
'Crouching Girl'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Nineteenth, 1945
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
'The Prayer'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1940 - 1943
Exhibited 4 times, eight works in all (portraits, heads and figures in bronze)
Exhibited at Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / National Museum of Wales), 1942
October 1942
Sources
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists, 1942
1942
Cat. Nos. 190, 191, 192, p. 12
Catalogue of Works by Allied Artists
1942
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 24
Citing this record
'Mary Duras', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib1_1205920465, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
