Duras, Mary, 1898-1982

LC control no.	no2015009897
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Duras, Mary, 1898-1982 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kopf, Mary, 1898-1982 Schück, Mary, 1898-1982 Durasova, Maria, 1898-1982
Associated country	Austria Czech Republic England Germany
Associated place	Paris (France) Prague (Czech Republic) Wendover (England) New York (N.Y.) London (England) Hamburg (Germany) Dresden (Germany)
Birth date	18980510
Death date	19820812
Place of birth	Vienna (Austria)
Place of death	Graz (Austria)
Field of activity	Sculpture
Affiliation	Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italy)
Profession or occupation	Sculptors
Found in	Habán, Ivo, 1977-. Mary Duras, 2014: title page (Mary Duras) page 261 (Czech-German-Austrian sculptor; born in Vienna, a major part of her life is associated with Prague, but also lived in Dresden, New York, Paris, London, Hamburg and Graz) page 187 (Duras family moves to Prague in 1904) page 189 (travels to New York in 1923; 1924 she has a studio In Paris; 1927 marries Maxim Kopf; moves back to Prague with him in 1930; in a Prague sanitorium in 1936) page 196 (marries Arnold Schück in 1938; exhibits in 1938 for the last time at the Biennale di Venezia, in which she participated in 1928, 1930 and 1936) page 196 (in London in 1939) page 197 (1940 moves to Wendover Dean in Buckinghamshire west of London) page 199 (in August 1945 returns to Prague after 6 years away) page 201 (emigrates to Austria with her husband in 1963 and lives with relatives in Vienna; moves to a house in Hamburg in 1964) page 202 (moves to Graz in 1974 and lives with relatives of her late husband; Mary Duras dies on August 12, 1982 in Graz as a German citizen) AKL online, January 22, 2015 (Duras, Mary; Kopf, Mary; Schück, Mary; female sculptor; geographical data: Czechoslovakia,; Prague; Wendover (Buckinghamshire); Vienna; Bochum; Hamburg; Graz; country: Czech Republic, Austria, Great Britain, Germany); born May 10, 1898, Vienna; died August 12, 1982, Graz) Benezit dictionary of artists in Oxford art online, January 22, 2015 (Durasova, Maria (or Duras); Austrian; 20th century; female; active in Germany; born May 10, 1898 in Vienna; sculptor, busts; sudied decorative arts with Stursa in Prageu from 1916 to 1919 and then at the academy of fine art in Dresden from 1922 to 1924; lived in New York for two years and in Paris from 1924 to 1927; took part in the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in Paris in 1927. She finally settled in Germany)