Gerda Frömel
Czechoslovakia born Gerda Frömel was a sculptor who worked for a time in Austria and Germany and later in Ireland. Frömel studied sculpture at the Arts Schools in Stuttgart, Darmstadt and Munich. She met Werner Schürmann while in college in Munich whom she married and moved to Ireland with so that he could take a teaching post at the National College of Art and Design. She was commisioned to produce Sails for P.J.Carroll and Son, Dundalk, which at the time, was the largest private sculptural commission in Ireland. She exhibited annually with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, and with the Independent Artists Exhibition in 1962 and 1963. In 1964 and 1970 she had a solo exhibition in The Dawson Gallery. Frömel also worked in stained glass. She died in a drowning accident in 1975. www.whytes.ie
