Violet Dreschfeld Explained

Violet Jennie Dreschfeld
Birth Date:	1890
Birth Place:	Chorlton, Manchester
Nationality:	British
Known For:	Sculpture

Violet Jennie Dreschfeld (1890–1975) was a British artist known for her portrait sculptures.

Biography

Dreschfeld was born and grew up in the Chorlton suburb of Manchester, one of three children to Selina and Julius Dreschfeld, a German-born physician, who became a Professor of Pathology.^{[1] [2]} Violet Dreschfeld studied sculpture in London, where she was based in the 1910s. She was active throughout that decade producing portrait busts, particularly of female subjects.^{[3] [4]} From 1929 she began exhibiting at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Sara Gray. Dark River. 2019. British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts . 978 1 911121 63 3.
2. Web site: Julius Dreschfeld, 1846-1907. Manchester Medical Collection: Biographical Files A-G. 22 March 2020.
3. Book: James Mackay. Antique Collectors' Club. 1977. The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze . 0902028553.
4. Web site: University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII. V.J. Dreschfeld . 2011. 23 March 2020. Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951.
5. Book: Editions Grund. Paris. 2006. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 4 Cossintino-Dyck. 2 7000 3074 5.