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Marguerite Wildenhain

Marguerite Friedlaender Wildenhain (1896 - 1985) was active/lived in California / Germany.  Marguerite Wildenhain is known for Modernist ceramic vessel, teaching.

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 unexpectedly the posted proclamation by architect Walter Gropius about the founding of the Bauhaus scho   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9456 characters.]  Artist bio

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