Bio
Ludmilla Meilerts (Latvian/Australian 1908-1978) Bio
Ludmilla Meilerts was born near the town of Baldone In Latvia, She started studying at the Latvian Academy Of Fine Art with portraiture and figural drawing, graduating in 1940.
Due to wartime circumstances Ludmilla and her Husband Otto, Fled to Stuttgart Germany which was under American occupation at the time, While staying at the refugee camps she continued to paint and work on her skills, By 1946 she held her first solo exhibition at Stuttgart.
After arriving in Australia as migrants in 1948 with her husband, she was offered work as a nurses aid at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, During this time she still continued to paint, with works mainly around Melbourne including the hospital grounds, She was invited to showcase three works at the 1948 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists in Sydney, Which had many Australian artists including Russell Drysdale, Lloyd Rees, William Dobell, Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Sali Herman, Elaine Haxton, George Bell, Margaret Olley and Thea Proctor, This was attracting for the National Gallery Of Victoria which purchased two of her works by 1950.
Ludmilla’s first solo exhibition was held in 1949 at the Georges Gallery Melbourne, In the inaugural 1950 Dunlop Art Prize (at the time the richest national award in Australia) Meilerts shared fifth prize with Fred Williams. First prize Sidney Nolan, second William Frater, Arthur Boyd third and Charles Bush and Len Annois sharing fourth. She was a Dunlop Prize finalist again in 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954, placing Ludmilla alongside some of the foremost artists of the time.
Condition
Ludmilla Meilerts (Latvian/Australian 1908-1978) Bio
Ludmilla Meilerts was born near the town of Baldone In Latvia, She started studying at the Latvian Academy Of Fine Art with portraiture and figural drawing, graduating in 1940.
Due to wartime circumstances Ludmilla and her Husband Otto, Fled to Stuttgart Germany which was under American occupation at the time, While staying at the refugee camps she continued to paint and work on her skills, By 1946 she held her first solo exhibition at Stuttgart.
After arriving in Australia as migrants in 1948 with her husband, she was offered work as a nurses aid at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, During this time she still continued to paint, with works mainly around Melbourne including the hospital grounds, She was invited to showcase three works at the 1948 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists in Sydney, Which had many Australian artists including Russell Drysdale, Lloyd Rees, William Dobell, Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Sali Herman, Elaine Haxton, George Bell, Margaret Olley and Thea Proctor, This was attracting for the National Gallery Of Victoria which purchased two of her works by 1950.
Ludmilla’s first solo exhibition was held in 1949 at the Georges Gallery Melbourne, In the inaugural 1950 Dunlop Art Prize (at the time the richest national award in Australia) Meilerts shared fifth prize with Fred Williams. First prize Sidney Nolan, second William Frater, Arthur Boyd third and Charles Bush and Len Annois sharing fourth. She was a Dunlop Prize finalist again in 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954, placing Ludmilla alongside some of the foremost artists of the time.
