Artist on paper, born Heinrich Edelstein in Vienna, Austria. While in a Nazi concentration camp was encouraged to paint by the German Expressionist Gert Wollheim, also a prisoner, then after World War II attended L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière, in Paris. Lived and worked in Indo-China, Australia, Italy, France, Canada and America, eventually moving to England for his wife to be treated for cancer. The threat of nuclear war and rockets was a recurrent theme in Edion’s work, which employed humour, strong colours and thick black lines, as in his exhibits in Fragments Against Ruin, the Arts Council touring show of 1981–2. Edion also exhibited in North America, with Crane Kalman Gallery in 1962, and after his death was shown at that gallery in 1993 and at Ben Uri Art Society, 1994, which holds examples.