Frans
Wildenhain Papers |
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| Frans Wildenhain (1905-1980) was born in Leipzig, Germany, and studied at the Bauhaus with Josef Albers, Walter Gropius, Max Krehan, Moholy-Nagy, and others from 1923 to 1925. He had pottery shops in Putten, Holland, and Amsterdam before immigrating to the United States in 1947. After spending three years at Pond Farm Workshops in Guerneville, California, with his first wife Marguerite, he became an instructor at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology. After his divorce from Marguerite in 1955, he was married to Marjorie McIlroy until her death in 1967. His third wife, Lili Wildenhain, donated his papers to the Archives in 1989 and 1998. Included among his papers are letters, diaries and travel journals, notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, project files, and printed material. | ||
 Draft of a letter from Wildenhain to Peter Schneider, ca. 1979. |
 Draft of a letter from Wildenhain to Lois Moran, Executive Director of the American Craft Council,” March 16, 1978. |
 Wildenhain's kiln log, 1971-1979. |
 Letter from ceramist Robert Turner (b. 1913) |
 Postcard of Wildenhain's Pottery in Putten, Holland, ca. 1933-1940. |
 Paul Soldner (b. 1921), Frans Wildenhain (1905-1980), and Tashiko Takaezu (b. 1922). |
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