Frans Wildenhain papers

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Frans Wildenhain papers

circa 1890-1991

The papers of ceramicist, sculptor, and educator Frans Wildenhain measure 8.2 linear feet and date from circa 1890 to 1991. The papers document his career in Europe and the United States through biographical material, correspondence, diaries and notebooks, writings and notes, subject files, project files, printed material, three mixed media scrapbooks, artwork and sketchbooks, and photographic materials.

8.2 Linear feet

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SNAC Resource ID: 6758200

Archives of American Art

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Bauhaus

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Educational institution. From the description of Photographs of Bauhaus students, teachers, and exhibits, 1919-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840731 From the description of Postcards about the Bauhaus, 1922-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78683279 The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius as a school of art, architecture, and crafts, with the focus on instruction in the unity between the fine and applied arts and i...

Albers, Josef, 1888-1976

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Josef Albers was born on March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, the only child of Lorenz Albers, a housepainter, and Magdelena (Schumacher) Albers. He attended the Präparanden-Schule in Langenhorst from 1902 to 1905 and then the teachers college in Büren, graduating in 1908. He became an instructor in several Westphalian primary schools. Albers studied at the Royal Art School in Berlin, the Arts and Crafts School (Folkwang School)in Essen, and at the Art Academy in Munich u...

Johnson, Robert E. (Robert Emory), 1932-

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Johnson is a collector of the work of ceramist Frans Wildenhain. From the description of Robert Johnson slides of works by Frans Wildenhain, [ca. 1978]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594168 Robert Emory Johnson (1932- ) is a painter from San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Emory Johnson, 1975 Mar. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596634 ...

HARWOOD, STUART

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Rochester institute of technology

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Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Naples Mill School (Naples, N.Y.)

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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...

Esherick, Wharton.

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Wood engraver, furniture maker, sculptor; Philadelphia, Pa. Born 1887. Died 1970. From the description of Wharton Esherick papers, 1920-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355168 ...

Castle, Wendell, 1932-

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Furniture designer. From the description of Reminiscences of Wendell Castle : oral history, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565694 Furniture designer, sculptor, and educator. Taught at the School for American Craftsmen, and Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. From the description of Wendell Castle papers, 1965-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118428 From the description of Oral history...

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...

Herzger, Walter, 1901-

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Cartwright, Roy

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Ceramicist; Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Roy Cartwright letters from Frans Wildenhain, 1966-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122370446 ...

Krehan, Max

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Fischer, Kitty C. L.

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Kitty, a weaver, and Hermann Fischer, an architect, both of Holland, became acquainted with ceramist Frans Wildenhain as fellow students at the Bauhaus. They maintained their friendship throughout World War II via correspondence. Wildenhain established pottery workshops in Putten and Amsterdam, Holland before immigrating to the United States in 1947. After spending three years with the Pond Farm Workshops in Guerneville, California, he became an instructor at the School for American Craftsmen, R...

Wildenhain, Marjorie McIlroy.

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Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002

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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, Elisabeth, 1917-

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Elisabeth Wildenhain (1917- ) is a fiber artist and teacher from Rochester, N.Y. Elizabeth Wildenhain is the third wife of ceramist Frans Wildenhain. From the description of Oral history interview with Elisabeth Wildenhain, 1995 Aug. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78748289 ...

School for American Craftsmen (Rochester, N.Y.)

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Hagel, Otto, 1909-1973

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Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997

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Moore, Henry, 1898-1986

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English sculptor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) and typed letters signed (5) : Much Hadham, Hertdfordshire and Athens, to Henri Jonquières, 1949 Nov. 3-1951 Aug. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871551 Henry Moore was an English artist, principally renowned as a sculptor. He was born in Yorkshire and studied at the Leeds School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. Reginald H. Wilenski was a resident of Bristol, England, and was a university lec...

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