#gerda gottschlich

[mote-historie]

Gerdago, Photo by Atelier Manassé (Adorian and Olga Wlassics), 1920s

Gerdago (1906-2004) aka Gerda Gottstein, Gerda Gottschlich, Gerda Irro, and Gerda Iro.

Born Gerda Gottstein in Vienna, she pursued art studies, first in Berlin in 1927, and then Paris in 1928-1929, where she worked as assistant to architect and stage and film designer Oskar Strnad. The name Gerdago was a professional pseudonym made up of her first name, “Gerda”, and the first two letters of her last name, “Go”.