Ernestine Tahedl was born and
educated in Austria and received a Master's Degree in graphic art from the
Vienna Academy of Applied Arts.
Following graduation in 1961, she collaborated with her father,
Professor Heinrich Tahedl, in the design and execution of stained glass
commissions until she immigrated to Canada in 1963.
Her studio is in King City, Ontario.
Her work is represented in public, corporate
and private collections and galleries in Canada, United States, France,
Switzerland, Austria, and Japan.
She was elected a member of the Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts in 1977 and of the Ontario Society of Artists 1984.
She received the Governor General's
Canada 125th Anniversary Medal in 1993. She was the recipient of
the Arts and Letters Award from the
Arts and Letters Club of Toronto in 2000, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and the Elmore Besen Award from
the OSA in 2014. She was invited to participate in the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy in
2003. She received the President’s Medal
of the Ontario Society of Artists in 2006 and was awarded 2016, Golden
Decoration of Honour for services to the Republic of
Austria .
The Varley Art Gallery of Markham organized
and presented a Retrospective 1946-2006,
curated by Katerina Atanassova, at present Curator of Canadian Art, the National Gallery, in 2006. This
Retrospective travelled to several centers in Ontario. Tickle Scratch Productions produced a film
for the Bravo television series: “The Artist’s Life: Ernestine Tahedl”
under the direction of Michael Glassbourg .
A Solo exhibition: Ernestine Tahedl “OPUS- Works 1946-2012” took place in St.
Poelten, Lower Austria at the Niederösterreichischen Documentations Zentrum für
Moderne Kunst, September of 2012, in Zagreb, Croatia, at Moderna Galerija in
November 2012, Austria. In 2016 her work with her Fathers work was shown in a
large exhibition in the Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.
9 large size Mosaic panels created
by the artist in 1965 were reclaimed from the Canada Post office and are now
part of the new Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton Alberta.
