Biography

Marguerite Friedländer-Wildenhain (Lyon 1896 - 1985 Guerneville) Marguerite Friedländer joined the Bauhaus on October 15, 1919, after studying at the Berlin University of Applied Arts and working as a decorative designer in a Rudolstadt porcelain factory. From 1920-25 she worked in the ceramics workshop in Dornburg with Max Krehan. In 1925 she moved to the Halle School of Applied Arts, Burg Giebichenstein, where she worked as a subject teacher and head of the pottery workshop. In 1933 she was dismissed by the National Socialists and emigrated to Holland with her husband, the Bauhaus student Franz Rudolf Wildenhain, where they set up their ceramics workshop 'Het Kruikje' in Putten. In 1940 she emigrated to the USA. She first worked as a teacher in the ceramics workshop at the California College of Arts and Crafts and moved to Guerneville in 1942, where she founded an artists' colony with others on Pond Farm.

Objects by Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain