![]() Peter did botanical paintings, and it was he who encouraged her to continue sketching and painting the flora and fauna in her surroundings. ![]() She went to Kenya in 1937 where she met and married in 1938 the botanist Peter Bally, who gave her the nickname "Joy". Her first marriage in 1935 was to Viktor von Klarwill (aka Ziebel 1902–1985). Joy Adamson married three times in the span of ten years. As a young adult, Adamson considered careers as a concert pianist, and in medicine. She grew up on an estate near Vienna, was educated in Vienna earning a music degree before studying sculpting and medicine. In her autobiography The Searching Spirit, Adamson wrote about her grandmother, saying, "It is to her I owe anything that may be good in me". ![]() Her parents died when she was 10, and she went to live with her grandmother. Biography Īdamson was born to Victor and Traute Gessner ( née Greipel) in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic), the second of three daughters. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. ![]() Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. ![]() Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Friederike Victoria " Joy" Adamson ( née Gessner 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. ![]()
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