Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 [1] [2] or c. 1939 [3] [4]) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 1971 and 1985.
Andrew Wyeth met Helga Testorf in 1971 while she was nursing Karl Kuerner at the farm. A German immigrant, she lived across Ring Road from the farm with her husband. She soon began secretly modeling for Wyeth in a famous series of paintings and drawings. That year the first nude painting in the series was painted in the sewing room in the farm ...
Testorf became one of Wyeth's most famous models in what became known as The Helga Pictures. In 1978 he would paint Overflow , one of the most famous Helga paintings, where the overflow is seen through a window behind the nude, reclining Testorf.
Andrew Wyeth. Untitled, 1986. Watercolor on paper, B3150. Unframed: 11 x 14 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
Braids (1979), portrait of Helga Testorf. In 1986, extensive coverage was given to the revelation of a series of 247 studies of the German-born Helga Testorf, whom Wyeth met while she was attending to Karl Kuerner at his farm. Wyeth painted her over the period 1971 to 1985 without the knowledge of either his wife or Helga's husband, John ...
There are various stories as to how Maidenhair came to be painted. One such telling is from Andrew Wyeth’s granddaughter, Victoria, who recounts in a 1997 lecture: “Andy [was] very friendly, especially to young, attractive women.” [1] [2] Wyeth was searching for a new project and happened upon the German Lutheran church in Waldoboro.
This is aptly demonstrated by his landmark series of paintings known as the "Helga" pictures, the largest group of portraits of a single person by any major artist (247 studies of his neighbor Helga Testorf, clothed and nude, in varying surroundings, painted during the period 1971–1985).
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!