biografia di Ulfert WILKE (1907-1987)

Birth place: Bad Tölz, Germany

Addresses: Iowa City, IA

Profession: Painter, art administrator

Studied: Willy Jaeckel, 1923; Arts & Crafts School, Brunswick, 1924-25; Acad. Grande Chaumière, 1927-28; Acad. Ranson, Paris, 1927-28; Harvard Univ., 1940-41; State Univ. Iowa (M.A., 1947)

Exhibited: AIC, 1945; Younger Am. Artists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Mus., 1954; Italy Rediscovered, Smithsonian Traveling Exh., 1955-56; Lettering By Modern Artists, MoMA, 1964; Tokyo Biennial, tour Japan, 1967; Ulfert Wilke, Recent Works, Des Moines AC, Columbus Gal. FA, Joslyn Art Mus. & SFMA, 1970-71. Awards: Albrecht Dürer Prize, Germany, 1927; Guggenheim Found. fellowship for study in Europe, 1959-60 & 1960-61.

Member: Assn. Am. Mus. Dirs.

Work: Phila. Mus.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Mus., New York; CMA; WMAA; Mus. Tel Aviv, Israel.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, acrylics. Positions: head dept. art & director, Kalamazoo (MI) College & Inst. Arts, 1940-42; art & educ. director, Springfield (IL) AA, 1946-47; director, Univ. Iowa Mus. Art, 1968-. Publications: illustrator, portfolios, Music to Be Seen, 1956, Fragments from Nowhere, 1958 & One, Two and More, 1960. Teaching: Univ. Louisville, 1948-55; Univ. Georgia, 1955-56; Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, 1962-67. Collections arranged: Oscar Kokoschka, Kalamazoo Inst. Arts, 1940; As Found, Inst. Contemporary Art, Boston, 1966; Very Small Paintings, Objects & Works On Paper, Univ. Iowa Mus. Art, 1972.

Sources: WW73; J. Langsner, Art (November, 1961) & G. Nordland, Calligraphy and the Art of Ulfert Wilke," Art Int., (April, 1971)."

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