Frans Wildenhain Fact Sheet
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Student of the Bauhaus (1924-1926)
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Master Potter (1929)
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Awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to study the relationship between
ceramic murals and architecture (1958)
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Two-time winner of the Lillian Fairchild Award (1953, 1963)
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Fellow of American Crafts Council Collegium of Craftsmen (1975)
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Husband of award-winning, Bauhaus-trained potter Marguerite Wildenhain
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Born 1905 in Leipzig, Germany; lived in Holland, California, and New York State
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Founding faculty member of the School for American Craftsmen, now School for
American Crafts (SAC) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), 1950-1970
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Purchased the land for his Bushnell's Basin house from the wife of the inventor of the
gasoline powered automobile
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Lived at Pond Farm, a 1950s California artists’ “commune”
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Apprenticed as a draftsman and lithographer at age 14
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Created murals, including one at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, M.D.,
and another in the lobby of Overlook Hospital, in Summit, N.J.
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Contact: Bruce Austin
phone: 585-475-2879
email: [email protected]
www.rit.edu/wild
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Liberal Arts
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Rochester, NY 14623