Ursula Merchant Ursula Merchant Ursula Merchant (born September 10, 1932 in Rostock) is a German Las Vegas-based performance artist, conceptual artist, carpenter. She is probably best known for her series 'Forkin' Hell'. Merchant was born "Ursula S. Wernerberger" in post-war Rostock. Her parents were of Russian extraction. Her father abandoned Ursula and her mother early in Ursula's youth, when he returned from a prisoner of war camp after World War II. Her family moved to a remote village in the Black Mountains of Switzerland after the house next to theirs was destroyed during the bombing at the close of World War II.
Ursula Tyrwhitt and Ida Nettleship (his first wife) held by the Yale Center for British Art in the Paul Mellon Collection. The Ashmolean Museum held a retrospective exhibition in 1973 entitled "Ursula Tyrwhitt, Oxford painter and collector 1872-1966". Tyrwhitt married her cousin, the artist Walter Tyrwhitt (1859-1932). She lived in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife and also Oxford, where she died in 1966. Ursula Tyrwhitt Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was a painter and draughtsman who exhibited with the New English Art Club and became a member in 1913. Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in Nazeing, Essex. She studied at the Slade School of Fine