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Anna Brahms Biography
Anna Brahms studied
Art History at the University of Jerusalem, and then joined a puppet
theater. She spent two years traveling, making puppets and performing
with the troupe.
After her son was
born, Anna left the theater and moved to Jerusalem, where she began
making dolls as well as puppets, and experimenting with different
materials and techniques. She made her first doll from Fimo, a newly
developed plastic clay in 1978, the year her daughter was born. These
early dolls were bought by a gallery in Tel- Aviv and not long after the
family moved to Paris. Soon galleries throughout Europe began to buy
Anna's work.
Since moving to
the United States in 1981, Anna has exhibited widely in Chicago and New
York, as well as internationally. Her dolls have been displayed in
Christmas windows at Tiffany and Saks Fifth Avenue in New York as well
as at Lincoln Center's Gallery of the Performing Arts, The Museum of the
City of New York and the Muse'e des Arts Decoratifs in the Louvre in
Paris. Recently, scenes from "A Christmas Carol" and “Sleeping Beauty"
have been displayed in various galleries in Massachusetts.
Anna's dolls and
puppets are between 12 and 35 inches tall. Their bodies are made of
cotton on a metal armature. The heads and limbs are formed of clay, fimo,
prosculpt, paper-mache', wood and plaster and painted with acrylic
paint. The hair is goat's hair or silk threads and the eyes are glass.
Anna lives and
works in Conway Massachusetts, where she is inspired by the beauty of
nature around her and especially the magical nature spirits.
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