Slawa Duldig

Slawa Duldig
Born
Slawa Horowitz

(1901-11-28)28 November 1901
Horocko, Poland
Died16 August 1975(1975-08-16) (aged 73)
NationalityPolish-Austrian-Australian
Alma materAkademie der Bildenen Künste Wien
Occupations
  • Inventor
  • artist
  • interior designer
  • teacher
Spouse
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(m. 1931)​
ChildrenEva Duldig
RelativesTania de Jong (granddaughter)

Slawa Duldig née Horowitz (28 November 1901– 16 August 1975) was an inventor, artist, interior designer, and teacher.[1] In 1928, as Slawa Horowitz, she created a design for an improved compact folding umbrella, which she patented in 1929.[2] Slawa was the wife of the Polish-Austrian-Australian modernist sculptor Karl (Karol) Duldig.[3] She was also the mother of Eva de Jong-Duldig, a champion Australian tennis player who played in Wimbledon, the French Championships, the Australian Open, and at the Maccabiah Games in Israel where she won two gold medals, and is founder of the present-day Duldig Studio, an artists' house museum in Melbourne, Australia.[4][1]

  1. ^ a b Helen., Kiddell (2011). The Duldig Studio : a history. Glen Iris, Vic.: Duldig Gallery. p. 5. ISBN 9780646537115. OCLC 748581760.
  2. ^ de Jong-Duldig, Eva (2017). Driftwood : escape and survival through art. North Melbourne: Arcadia. p. 58. ISBN 978-1925588040. OCLC 982607762.
  3. ^ Peers, Juliet, "Duldig, Karl (Karol) (1902–1986)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 18 July 2018
  4. ^ "Eva De Jong-Duldig – Escape and survival through art". SBS Your Language. Retrieved 18 July 2018.