Erna Weill Collection 1914-1971

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Erna Weill Collection 1914-1971

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The bulk of the collection covers Erna Weill’s professional career as sculptor and art teacher. In addition there issome personal information about the time before her immigration to the USA in 1937.

3.5 linear feet + 0.5 linear foot of audiovisual material.

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6345818

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Weill, Erna, 1904-1996

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Erna Weill née Helft was born in 1904 in Frankfurt am Main. She studied sculpture with Helene von Beckerath, a student of August Rodin, at the University of Frankfurt. She married the chemist Ernst Weill, and the couple had two children: Peter Weill, born in 1926, followed two years later by Ruth Weill. The family fled Germany in 1936 for Switzerland, and immigrated to the United States in 1937. Erna Weill stayed in the New York City area, where she worked as a sculptor and art teacher. Next to ...