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| | Hibel, Edna | (American, b.1917) |
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| | Born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, Edna Hibel is a prolific lithographer and watercolorist whose works have been recognized by various institutions in America and Western Europe. She was educated at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts from 1935-1939. In 1942, she was awarded with the Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. In 1966 Hibel began creating stone lithographs. In 1970 she moved to Zurich in order to work in an atelier. Today, she still works in Switzerland. Her works have been exhibited in more than 20 countries including the national museums of Brazil, Costa Rica, China, and the United States. She has also had exhibitions under the royal patronage of Count Thor Bonde of Sweden, Count and Countess Bernadotte of Germany, Prince and the late Princess of Rainer of Monaco, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England. She has received numerous prestigious awards including medals of honor from His Eminence Pope John Paul II and the late Belgian King Baudouin. In 2000, she was asked to create an original work to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the White House, which was unveiled at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. Today she lives with her husband of 67 years in the Palm Beach area where she has been honored with numerous awards including awards for her humanitarian work for children’s and medical charities. |
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