About Karin van Leyden
Lived 1906 – 1977 (aged 70–71). Karin van Leyden was a German painter and artist.
Karin van Leyden (1906–1977) was a German painter.
Leyden was born on July 23, 1906 in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the Kölner Werkschulen in Cologne. Her teachers included Johan Thorn Prikker and Richard Seewald. She was married to fellow artist . The couple traveled through Europe and the Middle East. They moved to the United States in the early 1940s. In 1957 the couple returned to Europe to live. By the 1960s the couple no longer lived together. Leyden settled in Switzerland and created abstract paintings.
Her work is in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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German painter (1906–1977)
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Karin van Leyden was born on 23 July 1906 in Berlin.
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Karin van Leyden died in 1977 in Lugano.
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Karin van Leyden was a painter and artist.
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Karin van Leyden was German.
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