About: Pauline Vogelpoel

Pauline Vogelpoel MBE (24 April 1926 in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa – 22 December 2002 in Basle, Switzerland) was a South African arts administrator. She was educated at both Herschel Girls' School and Rustenburg Girls' School in Cape Town and received a degree in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town. She became engaged to a Rhodesian, , an aide to the Governor Sir Godfrey Huggins. In 1950, she followed her brother Louis, a cardiologist and a world expert on wild flowers with an orchid named after him, to London. introduced her to the Art Institute of Chicago and got her a job in New York helping of the Museum of Modern Art. She joined the Contemporary Art Society as Organising Secretary in 1954, becoming Director in 1976. In 1975, she married the banker David Mann. In