Edith Vonnegut also should be recognized as a successful artist and creative person, but most people know her as Kurt Vonnegut’s daughter and Geraldo Rivera’s ex-wife. Much more than these defining relationships characterizes her life and art.
Early Life
Edith Vonnegut was born in 1949, and style of taking a child: creativity, moreover, the allies encouraged the artistic temper of their home. Born as the daughter of Anne Marie Cox Vonnegut and Kurt Vonnegut senior, an America acclaimed author and artist.
Edith grew up with love for literature, arts and culture. Her early life at her birth place, Cape Cod, Massachusetts was full of encouragement to her temper that was inculcated towards the artistry. Being a daughter to a parent who was a writer saw Edith learn consolation and disadvantage of having a celebrity parent.
She was able to establish herself as an artist at an early age owing to the increasing reputation of her father in the literary circle. Her parents spotted and forged her artistic incline and supplied her with drawings and pointers to make her flourish.
Education as well as flexibility of spirit, inherited from parents, and free imagination which blossomed in the atmosphere of the house where she was born, and the constant attends of writers, artists, and thinkers, who were friends of her parents, influenced decide the position of Edith in the sphere of art and life.
Career
Edith has spent more than several decades as an artist with a zealous approach in painting as well as illustration. The primary social issues that frequently appear in her work include feminism, family relationships, drilled into her from early childhood, and such general aspects of present-day society as injustices.
She has had her artworks displayed in many galleries including the recent art exhibition or illustrate some magazines. Many of her works depict powerful women and numerous and detailed strained family relationships based on the author’s own leasure, but at the same time, those works reflect the culture and interests of a large number of viewers.
Edith has also worked as an art teacher teaching what she loved to younger children. In their teaching she reproduces what she believes art is free expression for self and change of society.
Spouse: Geraldo Rivera
Edith was married to Geraldo Riverain 1976, however, the union could not last, and the couple divorced in 1984. This was also the time that Rivera started to climb his way up on the popularity ranking list as a television journalist and personality.
The marriage to Rivera gave more spotlight to Edith who had started featuring in the public eye as Kurt Vonnegut’s daughter. But at the same time, she succeeded in retaining her profile and creativity during this period.
While they were together the pair stood as two artists working towards more individual goals in the public sphere. Edith’s path was not set by their decision of divorce, however less personal for them. Instead, she stayed on her art and teaching
