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Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology
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[Hardcover] 11 x 8.5 in. 776 pages. 837 illustrations
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About the Book

    More than ten years in the making, this exhaustive collection of essays, memoirs, interviews, diary excerpts, art works, and archival photographs was published in 2007.  The first detailed account of the life of French-born American potter Marguerite Wildenhain (1896-1985) is still available in the Northern Clay Center's Sales Gallery.  The anthology places Wildenhain in the context of a ceramic tradition that began in Germany in 1919 at the Bauhaus, the most famous art school in history.
    Conceived and compiled by Dean and Geraldine Schwarz (founders of South Bear Pottery School), this vivid and compelling account illuminates not only of the life and work of an extraordinary artist and teacher, but also of the historical roots of the European concept of Handwerk; the role of pottery at the early Bauhaus; the establishment of Pond Farm by the Herr family; and the continuing, prospering legacy of the Bauhaus pottery tradition in such diverse places as (in Germany) Dornburg and Halle, and (in the US) Decorah, Iowa (South Bear), Fairbanks, Alaska (North Bear), and Spring Green, Wisconsin (Adamah).

About the Author

    Dean Schwarz is a potter, painter, teacher, writer and editor who lives and works at South Bear School and Pottery in rural Decorah, Iowa. He was a student and teaching associate of Marguerite Wildenhain. Geraldine Schwarz is a writer and editor who teaches minority literature at the North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City, Iowa. The book was designed by Roy R. Behrens, author of False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage, a writer and design professor at the University of Northern Iowa, who was also a student at Pond Farm.

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