Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameRalph Stephanos (Nicolas) Mavrogordato °, 3C4R
Birth19 Dec 1920, Berlin, Germany
OriginGermany.
Note 1Wrote to CAL in 2005. Left Germany in 1937 to join his mother in the USA. After graduating from College, he served in the U.S. Army during WWII. In 1947-48 he was an archivist at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. There he met Alice Blum.
Note 2Returned to the USA 1951. Resumed graduate work in history and political science at Duke University. Moved to Washington, D.C. to spend about 45 years as a military historian and defense system analyst.
Flags***, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Scanavi
FatherNicolas (Stephanos) Mavrogordato (1862-1931)
MotherAnnamarie (Otto) Mascow (1890-1972)
Marriageabt 1948, Nüremberg, Germany
SpouseAlice Blum
Birth14 Mar 1916, Vienna, Austria
MemoAccording to her US social security card.
Death20 Oct 2000, Hospice of Northern Virginia, USA
EducationReceived a children's scholarship at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts.
OriginAustria.
Note 1Jewish refugee of WWll. Abstract artist often identified with the Washington ‘Color School’ of painting. Survived WWII in England and then worked at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Went to the USA in 1951.
Note 2See reviews of her work in The Washington Post, The Washington Review and the Washington Star. Five of her paintings were bought by the Embassy of Austria in Washington D.C. and permanently displayed.
Note 3Studied intermittently (1954-56) with Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis at the Workshop Center for the Arts. Exhibited in 1957 at the Franz Bader Gallery ‘New Faces’ show. Her first solo show was at Collectors' Corner in 1958.
Note 4A charter member of the Origo Gallery with Tom Downing, Howard Mehring, Lowell Nesbitt, Elisabeth Pajak and others.
No Children