Helga testorf biography of mahatma
Helga testorf biography of mahatma
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The Helga Pictures
Series of paintings and drawings by Andrew Wyeth
The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c.
1933[1][2] or c. 1939[3][4]) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 1971 and 1985.
Creation
Helga Ingrid Testorf was a neighbor of Wyeth's in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and over the course of fifteen years posed for Wyeth indoors and out of doors, nude and clothed, in attitudes that reminded writers of figures painted by Botticelli and Édouard Manet.[2][5] To John Updike, her body "is what Winslow Homer's maidens would have looked like beneath their calico."[6]
Born in East Prussia, Helga entered a Prussian Protestant convent chosen by her father in 1955.
After becoming seriously ill she left the convent and lived in Mannheim, where she studied to be a nurse and a masseuse.[3] In 1957, she met John Testo