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Valeska
Valeska or Valeška may refer to the following people: Given name *Valeska von Gallwitz (1833–1888), German writer * Valeska Gert (1892–c. 1978), German dancer and cabaret artist *Valeska Menezes (born 1976), Brazilian volleyball player *Valeska Röver (1849–1931), German painter * Valeska Saab (born 1984), Ecuadorian politician, charity worker, model and beauty pageant titleholder *Valeska Sandoval, Nicaraguan student * Valeska Steiner (born 1986), Swiss singer and member of the duo Boy *Valeska Stock (1887–1966), German actress * Valeska Suratt (1882–1962), American stage and silent film actress *Sina-Valeska Jung (born 1979), German actress Surname *Adolfas Valeška (1905–1994), Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter and stage designer *Lette Valeska (1885–1985), American photographer, painter and sculptor Fictional characters *Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska, recurring characters in '' Gotham'' See also * 610 Valeska, a main-belt asteroid * Saved by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lette Valeska
Lette Valeska (August 20, 1885 – January 8, 1985) was a photographer, painter and sculptor in the Hollywood community. When her husband's chemical plant was confiscated by the Nazi regime, she left her homeland of Germany and traveled with her husband and daughter before moving to New York City in 1937. In 1938 she left her husband and moved to Los Angeles, where she spent the rest of her life. She began a photographic career of children's portraits and quickly gained notoriety among Hollywood stars. She worked as an archivist for the Pasadena Art Museum's Blue Four Collection. At the end of World War II, she organized a friendship correspondence between children in California and Ryswyck, Holland out of gratitude for Ryswyck citizens' assistance to holocaust refugees. At age 50, Valeska began painting and at age 70 began sculpting. She was featured in the Emmy award winning NBC documentary "The Heart Is Not Wrinkled" in 1969. Valeska's photographs were always taken at her sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Suratt
Valeska Suratt (June 28, 1882 – July 2, 1962) was an American stage and silent film actress. Over the course of her career, Suratt appeared in 11 silent films, all of which are now lost, mainly due to the 1937 Fox vault fire. Early life and career Suratt was born in Owensville, Indiana to Ralph and Anna (Matthews) Suratt. Her paternal grandparents were French immigrants and her maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from England. She had one stepsister, one older brother and a younger sister. When she was six, her family moved to Terre Haute, Indiana. She dropped out of school in 1899 and worked at a photographer's studio. Suratt later moved to Indianapolis where she worked as an assistant in a millinery at a department store. Career Suratt began her career as an actress on the Chicago stage. Around 1900, she began appearing in vaudeville. She soon paired with performer Billy Gould (whom she later married) and the two created a successful act that included a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Saab
Valeska Alexandra Saab Gómez (born 7 May 1984) is an Ecuadorian charity worker, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. The 2005 ''Miss Maja Mundial'' title holder and, with Kayi Cheung from Hong Kong, the 2007 Beauty with a Purpose Challenge winner during the Miss World 2007 contest. In Ecuador, she is noted for her work with children suffering from Ichthyosis. Early life Saab was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Jesús Saab and María del Rocío ''Chio'' Gómez Buenaventura on Monday, May 7, 1984. Just the day before her birth (Sunday, May 6), León Febres Cordero had become President of Ecuador defeating Rodrigo Borja in the second round of the 1984 Ecuadorian Presidential Election. She has two older brothers, Cristian and Patrick, and a younger one, Javier. In Guayaquil, Saab attended the ''Unidad Educativa Bilingüe Nuevo Mundo'' High School, Brookdale Community College and Blue Hill College where she studied International Business. She is fluent in Spanish and English. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Gert
Valeska or Valeška may refer to the following people: Given name * Valeska von Gallwitz (1833–1888), German writer *Valeska Gert (1892–c. 1978), German dancer and cabaret artist *Valeska Menezes (born 1976), Brazilian volleyball player * Valeska Röver (1849–1931), German painter *Valeska Saab (born 1984), Ecuadorian politician, charity worker, model and beauty pageant titleholder * Valeska Sandoval, Nicaraguan student * Valeska Steiner (born 1986), Swiss singer and member of the duo Boy *Valeska Stock (1887–1966), German actress *Valeska Suratt (1882–1962), American stage and silent film actress * Sina-Valeska Jung (born 1979), German actress Surname * Adolfas Valeška (1905–1994), Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter and stage designer * Lette Valeska (1885–1985), American photographer, painter and sculptor Fictional characters * Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska, recurring characters in '' Gotham'' See also * 610 Valeska, a main-belt asteroid * Saved by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome And Jeremiah Valeska
Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska are characters and antagonists on the FOX television series '' Gotham''. They are identical twin brothers portrayed by Cameron Monaghan. The series is a crime drama developed by Bruno Heller based on the Batman mythos in comic books published by DC Comics. Each twin adapts different characteristics of the DC Comics supervillain the Joker. Jerome is depicted as a nihilistic anarchist who spreads chaos in Gotham City until his eventual death, while Jeremiah is a cunning psychopath obsessed with tormenting Bruce Wayne. In the series finale set ten years later, Jeremiah is reinvented and becomes a figurative amalgamation of both Valeska twins over the course of the show. The virtual DC FanDome event in 2020 included Jeremiah Valeska in the documentary ''Joker: Put on a Happy Face'' among the various iterations of the eponymous character adapted for film and television, confirming that Jeremiah served as ''Gotham''s version of the Joker. Early co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Von Gallwitz
Valeska or Valeška may refer to the following people: Given name * Valeska von Gallwitz (1833–1888), German writer *Valeska Gert (1892–c. 1978), German dancer and cabaret artist *Valeska Menezes (born 1976), Brazilian volleyball player * Valeska Röver (1849–1931), German painter *Valeska Saab (born 1984), Ecuadorian politician, charity worker, model and beauty pageant titleholder * Valeska Sandoval, Nicaraguan student * Valeska Steiner (born 1986), Swiss singer and member of the duo Boy *Valeska Stock (1887–1966), German actress *Valeska Suratt (1882–1962), American stage and silent film actress * Sina-Valeska Jung (born 1979), German actress Surname *Adolfas Valeška (1905–1994), Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter and stage designer * Lette Valeska (1885–1985), American photographer, painter and sculptor Fictional characters * Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska, recurring characters in '' Gotham'' See also * 610 Valeska, a main-belt asteroid * Saved by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
610 Valeska
610 Valeska is a minor planet, specifically an asteroid, orbiting primarily in the asteroid belt. Discovered in 1906 by Max Wolf. The origin of the name is unknown, but it may be related to the provisional designation ''1906 VK''. In Slavic origin, it also means Glorious ruler. Photometric observations provide a rotation period of with a brightness variation of in magnitude Magnitude may refer to: Mathematics *Euclidean vector, a quantity defined by both its magnitude and its direction *Magnitude (mathematics), the relative size of an object *Norm (mathematics), a term for the size or length of a vector *Order of .... References External links * * Background asteroids Valeska Valeska 19060926 {{beltasteroid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy (duo)
Boy (stylized BOY) is a Swiss–German pop duo founded in 2007 by Swiss singer Valeska Steiner and German bassist Sonja Glass. The two met while at a pop-music course at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2005. The band initially played concerts exclusively, before being discovered by and signed to Herbert Grönemeyer's label, Grönland Records, in 2011. Their debut album, ''Mutual Friends'' ( Gold-certified in Germany), was produced by Philipp Steinke and released in the autumn of 2011. The band sings entirely in English in a style reminiscent of that of Leslie Feist. In the UK, ''Mutual Friends'' was released by Decca in June 2012. The North American release of the album was in February 2013 on Nettwerk Records. Boy won the Hamburg Musician Prize HANS in 2011 in the category Hamburgs Newcomer of the Year, and their album ''Mutual Friends'' won the 2012 European Border Breakers Award (EBBA). The duo's song "Little Numbers" was also featured in the Lufthansa Airl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Sandoval
Valeska Sandoval is a Nicaraguan university student. She was active in 2018 Nicaraguan protests who has been repeatedly captured by pro-government forces including once in an assault captured live on Facebook. Nicaraguan protests Originally from Ometepe Island. During the 2018 Nicaraguan protests against Daniel Ortega, since May, she remained entrenched in the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua), when the campus was taken over by young protesters. In June, she was captured and tortured by pro-government vigilante groups, who sexually abused her and two of her university partners, before leaving them abandoned and without clothes on the outskirts of Managua. On 14 July, pro-government paramilitary groups attacked the university to dismantle the trenches. During the attack, Sandoval made a live broadcast on Facebook that went viral in which she said goodbye to her mother and affirmed her commitment to the democratization demands to the government. Sandova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfas Valeška
Adolfas Valeška (15 March 1905, in Kybartai – 11 May 1994, in Kaunas, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter, stage designer, and museum director who worked in Lithuania and in Chicago, Illinois. Valeška graduated from the Kaunas Art School in 1928. He then began work as a church decorator, moving on to co-found a museum of religious art in Kaunas. From 1939 to 1944 he served as director of the Vilnius Art Museum. During this period his work was exhibited in a number of venues, including the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris, 1935; the International Press Exhibition at the Vatican, 1935; and the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Berlin, 1937, where he earned a medal for designing the Lithuanian Pavilion. Anticipating the Soviet occupation of Lithuania at the end of World War II, in 1944 he emigrated first to West Germany and then to the United States, where he established a studio in Chicago. He designed and executed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Röver
Valeska Röver (6 February 1849 – 31 March 1931) was a German painter. Röver started an art school for women in her home town of Hamburg. Life Röver was born in Hamburg in 1849. She was a student of the impressionist Franz Skarbina and she took lessons in Paris at the Académie Julian. She is known for starting an art school for women in Hamburg. At the time women were banned from existing art schools. Her students included Gerda Koppel and Alma del Banco and the teachers at her school included Alfred Lichtwark, Ernst Eitner and Arthur Illies. She painted still lifes of flowers and fruits. Valeska Röver was also commissioned to create embroidered hangings behind the chairs of the mayor in the council chamber (Senate enclosure) of the Hamburg City Hall and the president in the Hamburg Parliament. She also created altar vestments for St. James' Church in Hamburg.Thieme-Becker Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists. Thieme-Becker The dictionary was begu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Menezes
Valeska dos Santos Menezes (born 23 April 1976 in Niteroi; nicknamed Valeskinha) is a volleyball player from Brazil. She represented her native country at the 1999 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup, and 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She was named "Best Blocker" at the 2003 FIVB Women's World Cup The 2003 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 1 to 15 November 2003 in Japan. Twelve women's national teams played in cities all over Japan for the right to a fast lane ticket into the 2004 Summer Olympics. Teams were made up as follows: hosts ... in Japan, where the Brazilian national team claimed the silver medal. Awards Individuals * '' 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix – "Best Blocker"'' * '' 2003 FIVB World Cup – "Best Blocker"'' * ''2003–04 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Blocker"'' * ''2004–05 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Blocker"'' * '' 2005 South American Championship – "Most Valuable Player"'' * ''2005–06 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Blocker"'' Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
