William S. Huff papers, Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany) collection, 1953-

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William S. Huff papers, Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany) collection, 1953-

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The Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) material covers the range of the HfG's fourteen academic years and later accomplishment of many of the school's faculty and a number of its students. When the HfG abruptly closed in 1968, a number of persons had the presence of mind to box documents and artifacts and to deposit them in a storehouse of the Ulmer Museum, which is part of the Cultural mandate of the City of Ulm, one of three governmental funders of the HfG. Eventually, the City of Ulm established the HfG-Archiv as part of the City Archive. This, of course, is the prime depository of the archaeology of the HfG and is expected to remain so. Because of the nature of the base of the HfG-Archiv's collection, there is the possibility that the Huff papers include items that the HfG-Archiv does not have. For one, the HfG-Archiv does not have original pedagogic notes and aquarelle charts on the theory of color that were written expressly for Huff by HfG teacher, Helene Nonn©♭-Schmidt. Huff's HfG papers include the following: All issues of ulm, the Journal of the Hochschule für Gestaltung; catalogs of exhibitions from during the tenure of the HfG and afterwards; addresses of Tom©Łs Maldonado on the pedagogic direction of the HfG; student application brochures; a number of the published annual curricula; a number of departmental schedules sheets, showing the hourly distribution of study; original photographic prints by Huff, Hans G. Conrad, and Hans Schmied of the life of the school; whole newspaper pages with articles about the school, including the 1957 expulsion of Max Bill; original posters of Aicher, Mavignier, and Vordemberge-Gildewart; original graphic pieces, as calling cards and New Year's greeting cards; personal letters to Huff from Max Bill, Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher, Tom©Łs Maldonado, Isle Leda, F. Vordemberge-Gildewart and wife. Helene Nonn©♭-Schmidt; color slides of the HfG and of Rotis. (There are also letters from Bauh©Þusler Josef and Anni Albers, Walter Gropius, Marguerite Wildenhain.) Post-HfG papers are included as a part of this collection⁰́₄especially the research and design work carried out by Otl Aicher at his compound in Bavaria, Rotis, for which a modern typeface, designed by Aicher, was named. There are papers of students, post-HfG activities, including Gunter Schmitz, Hans (Nick) Roericht, Shutaro Mukai, Thomas Dawo, Peter Gautel, and others. There is significant documentation on the school's closing in 1968. Included as part of the collection are 195 Pearwood models of crystals, made by Dr. F. Krantz.

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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...

Albers, Anni, 1899-1994

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Anni Albers was born in Germany in 1899 and attended the Bauhaus where she met her husband designer Josef Albers in 1922; they married in 1925. At the Bauhaus. she experimented with new materials for weaving and executed richly colored designs on paper for wall hangings and textiles in silk, cotton, and linen yarns. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the Albers lived alongside the families of artist teachers Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oscar Schlemmer, and others in one of ...

Roericht, Nick H.

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Aicher, Otl

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Dawo, Thomas.

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Schmied. Hans.

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Gautel, Peter 1934-

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Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany)

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Vordemberge-Gildewart, Friedrich, 1899-1962

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German painter and sculptor. From the description of Letters, 1954-1960. (National Gallery of Art Library). WorldCat record id: 122456261 ...

Maldonado, Tom©Łs.

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Huff, William S.

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Schmitz, Gunter R.

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Lore E. Cohn (née Cohen, Essen, Germany, 1925 - ), daughter of Albert and Hedwig Cohen, was born to Jewish parents. In 1939, she and her brother, Werner, emigrated to England; they moved to the United States in 1946. From the description of Ich gedenke : Albert Cohen Hedwig Cohen testimony. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 122404678 ...

Nonne-Schmidt, Helene

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Mavignier, Almir da Silva, 1925-....

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Krantz, Friedrich.

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Scholl, Inge, 1917-1998

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Conrad, Hans Gunter.

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Mukai, Sh¿±tar¿⁻, 1932-

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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...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Vordemberge Leda, Ilse

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State university of New York at Buffalo

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Hochschule f©ơr Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany)

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Bill, Max, 1908-1994

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