Clarice cliff brief biography of adolf

  • Born in Tunstall (Stoke-on Trent), Staffordshire, Clarice Cliff left school at the age of thirteen to become an apprentice enameller and.
  • Key Facts: Clarice Cliff born on January 20th 1899 in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • It is hand painted with a stylised mountain landscape with trees to the foreground and a deep orange sky.

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      1930S

      The decade of the 1930s began in the gloom of the Great nedstämdhet and ended with the opening of the Second World War in 1939.  In between, were years of enormous technical advance and social change.  

      International politics of the 1930s were dominated by the working through of the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) and the political impacts of the Great Depression.  The rise of authoritarianism in Germany (the National Socialists under Adolf Hitler) was mirrored in Italy beneath Mussolini and in Spain with bloody victory of facist forces under Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).  Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia (19xx) and in the later part of the decade Germany’s occupations of the Rhineland (19xx), and Czechoslovakia (1938) set the scene for the Second World War.

      In the United Kingdom, the Great nedstämdhet was felt through rising unemployment, business failure and the devaluation of the pound.  A national (coalition) government wa

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      Clarice Cliff

      'Inspiration Clouvre Tulip' a Vase, circa 1930
      on blue ground
      30.5cm high, 'Meisel Collection' paper label to base

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