Ruth Rogers-Altmann [SEP] place of birth
Ruth Rogers-Altmann
Ruth Rogers-Altmann (December 31, 1917 – October 11, 2015) was a Vienna-born painter and fashion designer who lived most of her life in New York. She is the mother of Susan Costello Friedman, former editorial director of Abbeville Press, and Art Historian and Sculptor Victoria Thorson.
Life.
Rogers-Altmann is the daughter of Arnold Karplus, a well-known architect of Red Vienna, and his wife Else. From 1933 to 1938 her parents and she lived
Painter Ruth Rogers-Altmann while he prepared a stage production of his book The Accidental Caregiver, about his experience caring for Rogers-Altmann's cousin Maria Altmann.
Collins has written essays for The Guardian, Focus (German magazine), Life Matters Media, "Theater That Matters", "Film Courage", "Filmmaking Stuff", and has contributed to CINEMAEDITOR Magazine since 2013.
"The Accidental Caregiver".
In 2012 Collins published the memoir The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved and Lost Legendary