Ernestine Tahedl

About 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 Jubilee Medal in 2002 and Queen Elisabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. She received the President’s Medal of the Ontario Society of Artists in 2006. The Varley Art Gallery of Markham organized and presented in 2006 Ernestine Tahedl 1946-2006, Retrospective curated by Katerina Atanassova, former Curator, and Varley Art Gallery of Markham and of the McMichael Art Collection, Kleinburg and presently the Curator for Canadian Art , National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Canada. "OPUS" works from 1946 to 2012, a solo exhibition, as been shown at the NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St.Pölten, Austria and the Moderna Galerija, Zagreb, Croatia in 2012. Further Solo Shows took place at the Austrian Culture Forum. Bratislava, Slovakia, 2013, Kunstebene, Schloss Pöggstall, Lower Austria, 2014, 2016 Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria and Monastery St. Florian Upper Austria. TickelScratch Production produced a Film: The Artist's Life Ernestine Tahedl, under the Direction of Michael Glassbourg 2007.