Rose Expert Paints Them
University Daily Kansan Page 9
By Gay Pauley UPI Women's Editor
New York - (UPI) - The rose has been subject for the poets since the ancients. It's been glorified in story, in song and by societies which promote it as the world's most beautiful flower.
ower.
To Mme. Willi Gunthart, of Zurich Switzerland, the rose deserves all its praises. It also, to her, has become a personal flower because one is named for her and she's turned the painting of roses into a full-time career.
the wrote that
"Gertrude Stein's 'A rose is a rose is a rose' is not really true. Every rose is different. Each has an absolute personality. Not one has the same thorns or stems. No two leaves or petals even are alike."
Lotte Gunthart told of how she became a rose specialist as she and her husband stopped in New York for a few days before continuing to Los Angeles for an exhibit of her floral watercolors.
"The rose is the most beautiful of all flowers," she said. "Even Goe-the wrote that.
"I sometimes think," she added in an interview, "that it is fitting the rose has thorns. It is not right that something be so beautiful only."
She said the rose named for her was grown by Armstrong Nurseries of Ontario, Calif., which is helping to stage the exhibit. She had met the President, E. A. Armstrong, at a Swiss Rose Society meeting — she is on the society's board.
The rose which bears her name is a deep lush red. "The Queen Elizabeth rose is its mother," she laughed. "Bravo is its father."
She painted portraits, nudes, landscapes, houses, and for a while did some fashion and textile design both of which "were very dull," she said.
of which were Mme. Gunthart painted her first roses in 1954 for a calendar firm in Zurich. "Everybody seemed to like them," she said. "So I concentrated more and more on them."
Her roses have appeared on engagement books, Christmas cards, stationery and on linens. And she has her own rose garden with some 500 varieties at the family's picturesque 700-year-old house at Regensberg, near Zurich.
Mme. Gunthart said a rose painting takes her a solid 50 hours because "it's a true likeness, not an impression. I lock myself in the studio and work from dawn to dusk," she said.
"The first day is the most difficult because the flower wilts quickly. And it changes all the time, opening and unfolding its petals. If I'm lucky, the flower looks all right and then I can go on to the leaves, stem, and thorns.
"Sometimes, though, I have to try four or five times to get the colors the way I want them. And I may go over the leaves as many as 25 times to get the velvety finish I want."
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Friday, Oct. 2, 1964
'Kicks Band' Forming; Auditions Begin Sunday
A new jazz band to be known as the Kicks Band is now being organized by two KU men.
Kevin Conden, Kansas City, Mo., junior is business manager and Jim Bowman, Coldwater junior, will be director of the new group.
Auditions for places in the band will be held from 2 to 7 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 4, in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
It will be a sixteen-piece group and auditions on Sunday will be for trombone, trumpet, tenor sax, alto sax, baritone sax and bass. Auditions for piano and drums will be Sunday, Oct. 10, in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
The name of the band indicates the purposes of the group. They will play for enjoyment and possibly do some work for local groups.
The group's organizers will select members and will later decide on a place for practice and get the schedule for the year planned.
Interested persons should contact the director before the Sunday auditions.
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