Nornie Gude Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Gude died peacefully at home with her two children in Hawthorn on January 24, 2002.

Gude won many awards for her painting both while at school and throughout her career. In 1958 she went on a study tour through England and Europe. Her works were described by Harold Herbert as “slick and clever.” She exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society and the Australian Water Color Institute in Sydney.

She was accepted into the Ballarat Technical Art School at 15 because of her advanced skill in painting, and trained there from 1931-1936. She won the esteemed MacRobertson Scholarship in art worth £100 a year. She later went on to the National Gallery School from 1936-1939, studying with Sidney Nolan and Charles Bush, and became the first woman to win the National Gallery Students Travelling Scholarship.

Eleanor Constance “Nornie” Gude (Dec 8 1915 – Jan 24 2002) was an Australian artist.

Gude was born in 1915 in Ballarat, Victoria to Stella Rehfisch and Walter Gude, musician and violin teacher, and conductor of the St Patrick’s Cathedral orchestra and choir in Ballarat. Her parents met when Stella was 27 and the 42-year old never married Walter was teaching her the violin. Nornie and her sister Gilda were both raised in Ballarat before moving to Melbourne on the eve of World War II.