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Margarita Mandelstamm
Margarita Mandelstamm (June 1, 1895 – February 11, 1962), in Russian Маргари́та Фа́йвушевна (Па́вловна) Мандельшта́м, later known as Margarita Selinsky, was a violinist born in Riga, and based in the United States after 1921. Early life Margarita Mandelstamm was born in Riga (then in the Russian Empire), the daughter of Faivush (Pavel) Mandelstamm and Minna Mandelstamm. Her family was Jewish. Her father was a medical doctor in the Russian Army. Her younger sister was architect Elsa Gidoni. Mandelstamm trained as a violinist in Berlin with Willy Hess, and at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ... with Leopold Auer. Career Mandelstamm made her concert debut in Saint Petersburg in 1915. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Gidoni
Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni (March 12, 1901 – April 19, 1978) was a German-American architect and interior designer. Early life Gidoni was born Elsa Mandelstamm in Riga, Latvia, into the Lithuanian-Jewish family. Her father Fayvush (Pavel) Mandelstamm was a physician. She studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1916 to 1917 and at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) in the mid-1920s. She then operated her own interior design firm from 1929 to 1933. Tel Aviv In 1933, once Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, sweeping anti-Jewish legislation was passed, with the result that Jews unable to practice their profession. Gidoni left Berlin and settled in Tel Aviv where she practiced as an architect until 1938. There, she designed an economics school and worked on various projects such as planning the Swedish Pavilion at the Levant-Fair and the Café Galina. Much of Gidoni's work was of the International Style, an archite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |