Famous People with Name Bluma

Bluma Wulfovna Zeigarnik            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Bluma Wulfovna Zeigarnik: a Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist who discovered the Zeigarnik effect and established experimental psychopathology as a separate discipline.

Bluma Appel            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bluma Appel: was a Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts. In 1979, she ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Nepean—Carleton. She lost to Walter Baker.

Dzintra Bluma            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Dzintra Bluma: is a Latvian slalom canoer who competed in the early to mid 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of 24th in the K-1 event at Barcelona in 1992.

Elise Blumann            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Elise Blumann: was a German born artist who achieved recognition as an Australian Expressionist painter. She studied under Max Liebermann at the Berlin Academy of Art from 1916 until 1919. After which, Blumann taught in various schools in Germany from 1920 to 1923, when she married Arnold Blumann. She fled Nazi Germany with her husband in 1934, moving to Perth in 1938. With the Curator of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Robert Campbell, she helped found the Art Group, a discussion group through which she promoted modernist ideas and attitudes in art and art education. However, in the 1950s Blumann became disillusioned with the possibilities of art in Western Australia and only painted sporadically. Her work first received national attention in the late 1970s some fifteen years before she died in 1990, aged 93.