Title: Europa and the bull
Medium : Bronze with a brown patina
Size : 25.4 cm. (10 in.)
Dated : 1970
Signature : Signed
Exhibitions : N/A
Provenance : Essex Art Gallery
* Certificate of Authenticity from Artist Included *
Karin Jonzen (British, 1914–1998)
Sculptor and teacher, born in London of Swedish parents, and continued to live there. Her husband was the artist and dealer Basil Jonzen, and their son the artist Martin Jonzen, and after Basil’s death she married the Swedish poet Åke (pronounced Orker) Sucksdorff, whom she had met in the late-1920s. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1933–6, winning both painting and sculpture prizes; gained a scholarship in 1936 for a fourth year, and attended the City and Guilds Art School, Kennington; also studying at the Royal Academy in Stockholm. In 1939 won the Prix de Rome, but war – during which she served as an ambulance driver – prevented her from going to Italy. After the war Jonzen was elected a fellow of RBS and won the Feodora Gleichen Memorial Fund award as well as a series of international gold and silver medals.
She lectured at Camden Arts Centre and in art appreciation at London University extra-mural classes. Took part in Battersea Park open-air sculpture exhibitions. LG member who showed at RA, Wildenstein, Agnew and Roland, Browse & Delbanco. Among her portraits were the writer Sir Alan Herbert, the architect Sir Hugh Casson and the ballerina Dame Ninette de Valois. Jonzen completed a large number of public commissions including the bronze group Beyond Tomorrow, at Barbican Centre, a bronze torso for the World Health Organization building in Geneva and a Madonna and Child for St Mary-le-Bow Church. Tate Gallery, provincial and foreign collections hold Jonzen’s work. Nude terracotta examples of her work in Eric Newton’s monograph British Sculpture 1944–1946 were typical.
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