Mina Arndt

Hermina "Mina" Arndt (18 April 1885 – 22 December 1926) was a New Zealand painter.

Mina Arndt
Born
Hermina Arndt

(1885-04-18)18 April 1885
Queenstown, New Zealand
Died22 December 1926(1926-12-22) (aged 41)
Wellington, New Zealand
Known forPainting
StyleModernism
Spouse(s)
Lionel Manoy
​
(m. 1917)​
RelativesHarry Manoy (brother-in-law)

Biography

Arndt was born at Thurlby Domain, near Queenstown on 18 April 1885, the daughter of Maria and Herman Arndt.[1][2] As a girl, Arndt's family moved to Dunedin where she attended Otago Girls' High School.[3]

In 1906, Arndt was living in London studying under Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art in Kensington. Soon after, Arndt became involved with the Newlyn School, and worked with Stanhope Forbes, Laura and Harold Knight. Later, Arndt showed at the Royal Academy and in Paris at the Société des Artistes Français. In 1914, after being briefly interned in Germany after the outbreak of World War I, she returned to New Zealand permanently.[4]

She married Lionel Manoy in Wellington on 14 February 1917, and the couple had one son.[5] Arndt died suddenly at her sister's residence in Wellington on 22 December 1926 of nephritis,[4][6] and was buried at Karori Cemetery.[7]

  • The Red Hat, c. 1914

References
  1. "Birth". Lake County Press. 30 April 1885. p. 2. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  2. "Birth search: registration number 1885/9135". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. Kirker, Anne. New Zealand Women Artists. Reed Methuen, 1986
  4. Ann Calhoun (1992). Macdonald, Charlotte (ed.). The book of New Zealand women = Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa (Repr. (twice) ed.). Wellington: Williams. pp. 16–19. ISBN 0908912048.
  5. Markwell, Carol; Manoy, John P.R. "Manoy, Henry and Manoy, Lionel". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  6. "Deaths". Evening Post. 22 December 1926. p. 1. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  7. "Cemeteries search". Wellington City Council. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
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