Mirka Mora (born 1928) is a prominent French-born Australian Visual artist who has contributed significantly to the development of Contemporary Art in Australia. Her mediums include painting, sculpture and mosaics.
Mora was born in Paris in a Jewish family. She was arrested in 1942 as part of the Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv. Her father, Leon, managed to arrange for her release from the concentration camp at Pithiviers before Mora and her mother, Celia, w...
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Mirka Mora (born 1928) is a prominent French-born Australian Visual artist who has contributed significantly to the development of Contemporary Art in Australia. Her mediums include painting, sculpture and mosaics.
Mora was born in Paris in a Jewish family. She was arrested in 1942 as part of the Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv. Her father, Leon, managed to arrange for her release from the concentration camp at Pithiviers before Mora and her mother, Celia, were deported to Auschwitz. The family evaded arrest and deportation from 1942 - 45 by hiding in the forests of France. Having survived the Holocaust, Mora moved to Melbourne with her husband, Georges Mora.
Georges and Mirka Mora migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne where they quickly became key figures on the Melbourne cultural scene. Georges, a wartime resistance fighter, became an influential art dealer, and in 1967 he founded one of the first commercial art galleries in Melbourne, the Tolarno Galleries.
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