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Bertha Halozan

Bertha Halozan (1917 - 2004) is known for Folk art motif (Statue of Liberty).

Born in Austria, Bertha Halozan emigrated to the United States in 1954. She first went to Chicago to work as a nanny but was not happy and had trouble with English. She moved to New York to pursue a career as a singer and did facials at Helena Rubenstein. She then worked as a physical therapist at several venues and eventually gave up her career as a singer because “I got a lot of publicity but very little money.” She began painting in 1978 during her rehabilitation following a stroke.

Bertha generally painted repeated subjects – “a pigtailed, blue-eyed Statue of Liberty, surrounded by the busy activities of daily life in New York” often including the Goodyear blimp and a Mets baseball player, John Franco. She frequently included a helicopter, and houses from an Austrian village with red tile roofs.

For several years, she sold her paintings on a Manhattan street corner of Broadway and 55th Street near the residence hotel where she lived. She was rarely seen   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1676 characters.]  Artist bio

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