Ernestine Tahedl

ERNESTINE TAHEDL
Ernestine Tahedl was born and educated in Austria and received a Master's Degree in graphic art from the Vienna University of Applied Arts. Following graduation in 1961, she collaborated with her father, Professor Heinrich Tahedl in the design and execution of stained glass commissions until she immigrated to Canada in 1963. Her studio is in King City, Ontario. Her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections and galleries in Canada, United States, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan.
Her awards include the Graduation Prize of the Austrian Government 1961, the Allied Arts Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1966, and a Purchase Award, Concourse Artistique du Quebec 1966. In 1967 she received a Canada Council Arts Award, in 1999 the Mayor’s Prize at Kyoto ’99, Kyoto, Japan, and in 2000 the Kobe Sun Prize at Flora Art 2000 at Await Island, Hoyogo, Japan. She was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1977 and of the Ontario Society of Artists 1984. She received the Governor General’s 125th Anniversary Medal in 1993. She was the recipient of the Arts and Letters Award from the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto in 2000, the Queen Elisabeth II Golden J...

Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Solo show: 12. - 30. October 2020

Gallery 133, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Solo show: 24. October - 3. November 2020