Edith Galliner

Galliner was born in London into a German-Jewish family who returned to Hamburg while she was still a baby.[1] Galliner attended university in Berlin but when the Nazi Party came to power in 1933 she fled to Britain to avoid being arrested.[1] She attended both the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Central School of Art and Design in London before training as a silversmith in Paris.[1][2] Throughout 1938 and 1939 Galliner served as a travel companion to Jewish children being evacuated from Germany to Britain.[2] After the Second World War, she taught painting and drawing in Cork and in London.[1] From 1961 to 1965 Galliner was based in Berlin and concentrated on her art.[3] She painted in acrylic, produced pottery and collages in a style clearly influenced by the Bauhaus and Brücke movements.[1] Her paintings were often abstract and evoked submarine landscapes in a colour palette centred on deep blues.[3] Galliner had solo exhibitions in Berlin during 1963, in Munich in 1964, at Cologne in 1965 and in London at the Hamilton Gallery beginning in 1967.[3][1] The Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt in Munich hosted an exhibition of her work in 1973.[1] During her career Galliner took part in a number of group exhibitions including at the Camden Arts Centre in 1970 and was included in the Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933-1945 exhibition at the same venue in 1986.[1] Annely Juda Fine Art hosted a number of shows during the 1970s and Galliner was included in a group show, London Artists from Germany, at the German Embassy in London in 1978.[1] A number of public galleries in Berlin hold examples of her work.[3][1]