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1896 Lyon, France - 1985 Guerneville, California. Known for: Modernist ceramic vessel, teaching.
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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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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, then worked as a decorator of... Read full biography
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, then worked as a decorator of porcelain ware at a factory in Rudolfstadt. Shortly after World War I, while in Weimar for a weekend, she saw une... Read full biography
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Keywords (12)
Art Method
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Art Pottery
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Stoneware, Stone, Stonecut, Sandstone
Art Subject
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
- •Vessels, Vases
Art School
- •Bauhaus Student, Germany and/or US Teacher
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Ceramic Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Pond Farm Workshops, California