Mrs Bettina Ehrlich

Other names: née Bauer

Born 19 March 1903
Died 10 October 1985

Active: 1930 - 1985

Country of birth: Austria

Country of death: England

Painter, illustrator, author, printmaker, carver

Born in Vienna, Austria. Her mother was a painter. From the age of seventeen to twenty she studied at an art school in Vienna. Later she lived in Berlin for two years and in Paris for one year, exhibiting in both cities. She was awarded a silver medal for handpainted silks at the International Exhibition of Arts and Industries in Paris in 1937.

Bettina married the sculptor Georg Ehrlich in 1930. They came to the UK in 1938 when it became dangerous to remain in Austria. Bettina was a painter and illustrator who worked in a wide variety of media including lithography, etching, oils, watercolor, woodcut and lino cut. In 1940 she wrote and illustrated 'Poo-Tsee, the Water Tortoise' and then went on to publish more than twenty books for children. Bettina also became an expert in casting and patinating her husband's bronzes. After Georg's death in 1966 she lived in London and supervised the casting of his plaster and plasticine originals until her death.

This record includes information submitted by Judith LeGrove and biographical details from the de Grummond Collection, McCain Library and Archives, University Libraries, University of Southern Mississippi http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/ehrlich.htm (accessed 15 February 2012)

Citing this record

'Mrs Bettina Ehrlich', 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=msib2_1210256491, accessed 26 Oct 2021]