About Viktor Schreckengost

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Viktor Schrekengost
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    Viktor Schreckengost was born in 1906 in Sebring, Ohio. He passed away on Janurary 26, 2008 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Source: obituary notice provided by Corcoran Fine Art).

    The following is submitted by Bill Grulich whose source is the Cleveland Museum of Art's Web site:

    Who is Viktor Schreckengost?

    The son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father. In the mid-1920s, he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art, or CIA) to study cartoon making, but after seeing an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art he changed his focus to ceramics. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vien...

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