Ruth Gollancz
Ruth, Lady Gollancz (née Lowy; 1892–1973) was a British artist and wife of Sir Victor Gollancz.
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Ruth Gollancz
- Born
- 1892 · Hampstead.
- Died
- 1973
- Occupation
- artist · suffragette · architect
- Education
- Slade School of Fine Art · Architectural Association School of Architecture
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Ruth, Lady Gollancz (née Lowy; 1892–1973) was a British artist and wife of Sir Victor Gollancz.
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Ruth Gollancz (1892–1973) was an architect, artist and suffragette. The architect was born in Hampstead. Ruth Gollancz studied at Architectural Association School of Architecture and Slade School of Fine Art. Works by the architect are held at National Portrait Gallery.
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Ruth was the daughter of Ernest Daniel Lowy, a stockbroker. Ruth Gollancz studied art at the Slade School of Art from 1909 to 1912 under the direction of Henry Tonks. Her contemporaries at the Slade included C.R.W. Nevinson, Paul Nash, John Nash, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler and Gwen Raverat amongst others. At this time she was also an active suffragette. She left the Slade school to undertake war work before going on to become one of the first female students at the Architectural Association in 1917 and a fully qualified architect. Ruth married Victor Gollancz in 1919. The couple had five daughters including the artist Vita Gollancz and the musician Livia Ruth Gollancz.
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• 1933 – Cooling & Sons Gallery • 1964 – Upper Grosvenor Galleries
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded as human. The same evidence establishes that ruth Gollancz is recorded with the gender female. Recorded with the occupation architect. Born on 24 March 1892. It is also recorded that ruth Gollancz died on 29 April 1973.
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- 1.Gollancz, V. Reminiscences of Affection (Gollancz, 1968)
- 2.The Times, Obituary, 5 May 1973
- 3.Rubinstein, William D. The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. 349. 2011. 9780230304666.
- 4.Dudley Edwards, R: Victor Gollancz: A Biography page 25. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987.
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- Johnson, J. The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 (Antique Collectors Club, 1980)
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