Elsy Blom-Wirz

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexFemale
Full nameElsy•Blom-Wirz
Used nameElsy•Blom-Wirz
Born7 June 1915 in Basel, Basel-Stadt (SUI)
Died6 January 1985 in Locarno, Ticino (SUI)
NOC Switzerland

Biography

Elzy Blom-Wirz was a Swiss sculptor and painter. She studied in Zürich in 1942 under Germaine Richier and Hildi Heß an in 1945 under Hans Gisler. At the same time, she attended nude drawing courses at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). She produced reliefs, portrait busts and figures as plaster model for bronzes. Probably her entry Grace was a plaster relief.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1948 Summer Olympics Art Competitions SUI Elsy Blom-Wirz
Sculpturing, Reliefs, Open (Olympic) AC