Lea Halpern at the kiln

Biography of Lea Halpern:
1901 Born in Mikuliczyn, Galicia (then the Austro-Hungarian Empire)
1917 Family moves first to Berlin, then to Amsterdam
1922 Studies at the Quellinus School for Applied Arts, Amsterdam
1923–1924 Studies in Berlin at a private art school
1925–1926 Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
1930s Studio in Amsterdam
1940 Work exhibited at Rockefeller Center, New York, and in the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington; due to the German invasion of the Netherlands, she remains in the U.S. and settles near Baltimore
1974 Work exhibited in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (Netherlands)
1976 Work exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art
1976 Moves to England
1985 Dies in Salford/Manchester