Eva Lewin-Richter Meyerowitz

3 November 1899 – 1994

Eva Leonie Lewin-Richter was born in Berlin. In 1925 she married sculptor Herbert Meyerowitz and they had one child. Together they moved to South Africa, where Herbert taught at Cape Town University and opened an art school. In 1945, her husband committed suicide. After World War II, Meyerowitz returned to Africa and lived for forty years in the Bono-Tekyiman State of Ghana, where, in 1950, she was made Queen Mother.