Pauline Vogelpoel
Pauline Vogelpoel, MBE | |
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Born | 24 April 1926 |
Died | 22 December 2002 | (aged 76)
Occupation | Arts administrator |
Spouse | David Mann |
Parent(s) | Pieter and Yvonne Vogelpoel |
Pauline Vogelpoel MBE (24 April 1926 – 22 December 2002) was a South African arts administrator. She was educated at both Herschel Girls' School and Rustenburg Girls' School in Cape Town and received a degree in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town. She became engaged to a Rhodesian, Buster St Quintin, an aide to the Prime Minister Sir Godfrey Huggins. In 1950, she followed her brother Louis, a cardiologist and a world expert on wild flowers with an orchid named after him, to London. Beatrice Janice introduced her to the Art Institute of Chicago and got her a job in New York helping Douglas McCaigie of the Museum of Modern Art. She joined the Contemporary Art Society as Organising Secretary in 1954, becoming Director in 1976. In 1975, she married the banker David Mann. In 1982, he joined a private bank in Basel and she left her job at the Contemporary Art Society to move to Switzerland with him. She became the Zürich editor of Harpers and Queen magazine. In 1997, she joined the International Council of the Tate Gallery. She recorded her memories for the National Sound Archive's Artists' Lives project at the British Library Sound Archive. She received an MBE in 1962.
She died of a brain tumour in Basel on 22 December 2002, aged 76.
External links
- Obituary: Pauline Vogelpoel; Director of the Contemporary Art Society[dead link]
- "Obituary: Pauline Vogelpoel" The Independent
- "Pauline Vogelpoel" The Times
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