GIRL ART PRODIGY
DISPLAY OF PAINTINGS j Infant prodigies are not exactly rare, j hut there is something truly miraculous in the 100 oils, water-colours and drawings executed by Roswithn Bitterlich between the ages of three and 17 and exhibited at the New Burlington Galleries, states an overseas writer. The range of her imagination and the .skill of her hand stamp her as the most amazing art prodigy of post-war years. The 3'oung artist was born in 1020 on the shore of Lake Constance, and has lived at Innsbruck, in the Tyrol, since At the age of three she drew herself between two guardian angel* and at I.'} she tackled a large and most successful Gothically-lnrid canvas ol "The Banquet of Death," in whicti Famine, Plague, War and Greed are fellow guests with the Horseman, the Spendthrift, the Queen and the Knave. Roswitha is still at school, and preparing for matriculation and is a thoroughly unspoilt, healthy and pretty girl in spite of her amazing success in the world of art.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23083, 7 July 1938, Page 3
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