Marguerite Wildenhain papers

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Marguerite Wildenhain papers

1930-1982

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The papers of California ceramicist and educator Marguerite Wildenhain measure 3.7 linear feet and date from 1930 to 1982. Found within the papers are biographical sketches; correspondence with patrons, students, and colleagues, including Eugene Anderson, T. S. Eliot, and Gerhard Marcks; writings by Wildenhain and others; designs for pottery and other artwork; one scrapbook; news clippings, exhibition catalogs, and scattered printed material. Also found are photographs of Marguerite and Frans Wildenhain, Pond Farm, workshops, exhibitions,and artwork, as well as two film reels depicting Wildenhain lecturing and in her studio. There is a 0.3 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2020 that includes photographs and negatives of Wildenhain's works of art, circa 1960-1970, (many in the collection of Forrest L. Merrill or Luther College) taken by David Stone and photographs at Pond Farm, circa 1980. Additional photographs are of Wildenhain and her works of art, circa 1950 (possibly taken by Otto Hagel).

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Wildenhain, Frans, 1905-1980

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Frans Wildenhain (1905-1980) was a potter, painter, sculptor, and art instructor of Pittsford, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Frans Wildenhain, 1979 Apr. 10-July 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477536 Potter, art instructor; Pittsford, N.Y. From the description of Frans Wildenhain interviews, 1979 Apr. 10-July 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190989 German born potter Frans Wildenhain (1905-1980) joined the faculty at...

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Wildenhain, Frans, 1905-

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Anderson, Eugene Newton.

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Anderson was born July 24, 1900 in Texas; BA, Chemistry, Univ. of Colorado, 1921; Ph. D, European history, Univ. of Chicago, 1928; studied at Univ. of Berlin, 1924-5, and returned to Germany on Social Sciences research fellowship, 1930-31; published The first Moroccan crisis, 1904-6 (1930) and Nationalism and the cultural crisis in Prussia, 1806-15 (1939); became Assoc. Chief of the Division of Occupied Areas, US Dept. of State, 1945; taught at Univ. of Chicago before WWII; taught at Univ. of Ne...

Marcks, Gerhard

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Sculptor, monumental stone sculptor, bronze, and woodcuts. Born in Berlin, East Germany in 1889. Taught at School of Applied Art, Bauhaus, Halle and Hamburg. Last of Germany's three "Expressionist" sculptors. From the description of Gerhard Marcks letters from Frans Wildenhain, 1950-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122719 German painter and Bauhaus teacher from 1919-1924. From the description of Das Wielandslied der aelteren Edda (portfolio of woodcuts and ...

Wildenhain, Marguerite

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Marguerite Wildenhain (1896-1985) was a ceramicist and educator in Guerneville, California. Born Marguerite Friedlaender in Lyon, France, Wildenhain received training in sculpture at the Berlin School of Applied Arts. She later worked as a designer for the Royal Berlin Porcelain Factory, leaving in 1919 to apprentice in pottery at the Bauhaus, under Max Krehan and Gerhard Marcks. After receiving her degree as master-potter, she was employed at the Municipal School for Arts and Crafts in Halle Sa...