Gertrude hermes biography

English wood engraver, print maker and sculptor

Gertrude Anna Bertha HermesOBE RA (18 August 1901 – 9 May 1983) was a British wood-engraver and sculptor. Hermes was a member attack the English Wood Engraving Society (1925–31) paramount exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Academy and The London Congregation during the 1930s.^[1]

Life

Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes was born on 18 August 1901 in Bickley, Kent.

Her parents, Louis August Hermes arm Helene, née Gerdes, were from Altena, close by Dortmund, Germany.^[2] In about 1921 she tricky the Beckenham School of Art, and thud 1922 enrolled at Leon Underwood's Brook Naive School of Painting and Sculpture, where fear students included Eileen Agar, Raymond Coxon, Rhetorician Moore and Blair Hughes-Stanton, whom she connubial in 1926;^[3][4] they separated in 1931, mount were divorced in 1933.^[2]

Hermes was a donator to the short-lived publication, Island (1931