About Marguerite Wildenhain

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    Marguerite Wildenhain (October 11, 1896 - February 24, 1985), born Marguerite Friedlaender, was a French-born American ceramic artist, educator and author.

    In the second half of her life, having emigrated to the U.S. in 1940, she conducted summer workshops at Pond Farm, her remote mountain top home and studio near Guerneville, California (in the Russian River area), and wrote three influential books.

    Wildenhain was born in Lyon, France, to upper middle-class parents (a German father and an English mother) who were silk merchants. When still in her teens, her family moved to Germany, where she completed secondary school. Beginning in 1914, she studied sculpture at the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Berlin,...

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