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Elly Helene Holm, nee Pabst, was born in Koblenz, Germany, on 11 April 1911. After she had finished schooling she studied/trained for five and a half years at the Kunstakademie (Academy of Fine Arts) in Leipzig. Here she met her future husband, Erik Sidney Holm, a South African. He had trained as a Classical archaeologist and was also an art historian. In 1934 Elly came to South Africa and she and Erik got married. The two eldest children were born here. In 1939 the family moved to Germany where Erik took up work at the Afrikaans service of the 'Großdeutscher Rundfunk' the German Broadcasting Corporation. After the war Erik was extradited to South Africa to be tried and convicted for treason. In 1946 Elly and her children came back to South Africa. Upon Erik’s release from prison in 1948 the family settled at Hartbeespoort where the seventh child was born. The majority of the seven children chose Fine Arts for their careers. These include architects Dieter and Albrecht HOLM. Her goldsmith daughter Maia married the architect Chris BEYERS. Elly Holm worked in many media, she was one of the most versatile South African artists using eight different techniques or media. Many architects commissioned her work. She did extensive work at the Friedenskirche in Hillbrow, Johannesburg in the 1960s. Her stained glass windows are particularly noteworthy as is the large esgraffico work in the transept and the painting of the dome in the east entrance. In her lifetime Elly Holm donated 292 of her works to the University of Pretoria. She died on 9 December 2000 in Hartbeespoort, North West. References:
Submitted by Konrad Voges, July 2019. List of projects With photographs With notes
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