Vintage Benigna Chilla (Germany, 1940) "Castle Lying in Shadows to the Eyebrows"Oil on Canvas painted in 1988. In wood frame 30"x41"x2", weight 9 pds. NO IN HOUSE SHIPPING. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Estate.Pickup only or Shipping on this item offered through UPS (843) 203-3466 store7194@theupsstore.com , Pak Mail 843-849-0310 - info@charlestonshipping.com or Quik Mail Etc 843-723-6598 quikmailetc@gmail.com Please contact one of them or your own choice of shipper directly. Thank you Benigna Chilla began her art studies in her native Germany at the Folkwangschule in Essen and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. She moved to America in 1969, completing her graduate studies at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She held Visiting Assistant or Artist-in-Residence positions at the University of Massachusetts, Brown University, Cornell University and the Rhode Island School of Design until 1980 when she became a faculty member at Berkshire Community College, where she still continues to teach today. She has held residencies at Yaddo, the Djerassi Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Benigna has continued to steadily produce work from her studio at home in Chatham, New York as well as exhibit and lecture all over the world. She has presented a solo exhibition of her work at the School of Arts, University of Toluca, Mexico and has just recently returned from presenting a paper at a science symposium in Brazil where she documented her development of a new visual reading of a geometric design she discovered in a ceiling of an Islamic mosque. Most recently her work was shown in solo exhibitions at Auditorio Ameghino in Buenos Aires and at Barnes-Franklin Gallery at Tunxis College in Connecticut.

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