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Ursula von rydingsvard biography meaning
Ursula von Rydingsvard
American sculptor (born 1942)
Ursula von Rydingsvard (née Karoliszyn;[1] born 1942) is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
She is best known for creating large-scale works influenced by nature, primarily using cedar and other forms of timber.[2]
Early life and education
Von Rydingsvard was born in Deensen, Germany in 1942 to a Polish mother and Ukrainian father.
As a young child, the artist and her six siblings experienced the German occupation of Poland and the trauma of World War II, followed by five years in eight different German refugee camps for displaced Poles.[3]
In 1959, through the U.S.
Marshall Plan and with the assistance of Catholic agencies, her family of peasant farmers boarded a ship to the United States where they eventually settled in Plainville, Connecticut. She received a BA and MA from University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida in 1965 and an MFA from Columbia University in New Y