German sculptor
Waldemar Raemisch
Born (1888-08-19 ) 19 August 1888Died 16 April 1955(1955-04-16) (aged 66)Rome, Italy
Occupation Sculptor Spouse Gertrude Ruth Gallad (m. 1919–1955; death)
Sculpture of a Preacher (1952) by Waldemar Raemisch in Samuel Memorial, Fairmount Park , Philadelphia
Waldemar Raemisch (19 August 1888 – 16 April 1955) was a German-born American sculptor and educator.[ 1]
Waldemar Raemisch was born 19 August 1888 in Berlin , Germany . In 1919, he married metalsmith and enamelist , Gertrude Ruth (née Gallad).[ 2] After marriage his wife went by the name Ruth Raemisch.
His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics .[ 3] Prior to World War II, he taught at the United State Schools for Fine and Applied Arts [de ] in Berlin.[ 4] In 1937, Raemisch was forced to leave Germany due to the rise in Nazi power , his wife was Jewish.[ 5]
The same year, starting in 1937, Raemisch began to teach at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).[ 5] He later served as the head of the Sculpture Department at RISD from 1946 to 1954.[ 6] Raemisch had many notable students including Peter Muller-Munk ,[ 4] [ 7] Gilbert Franklin ,[ 8] Cornelius C. Richards,[ 9] and Wolfgang Behl.[ 10] [ 11]
He had traveled to Rome in 1955, to complete a 19 figure sculpture that would be public art in Philadelphia.[ 12] On 16 April 1955, he died at Salvator Mundi Hospital in Rome after an emergency surgery on his intestines.[ 12]
After Raemisch's death, Raemisch's former student and a sculpture professor at RISD, Gilbert A. Franklin (1919–2004) completed the 19 figure sculpture commission.[ 13]
His work is included in the public museum collections including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum ,[ 14] Rhode Island School of Design Museum ,[ 6] Harvard Art Museums ,[ 15] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,[ 16] McNay Art Museum ,[ 17] Currier Museum of Art ,[ 18] among others.
^ "Waldemar Raemisch" . American Art . Retrieved 18 October 2020 .
^ Jazzar, Bernard N.; Nelson, Harold B. (2006). Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980 . Long Beach Museum of Art. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-9712772-8-1 .
^ "Waldemar Raemisch" . Olympedia . Retrieved 29 July 2020 .
^ a b Wasserman, Nadine. "The Carnegie's retrospective on silversmith and product-designer Peter Muller-Munk is thoroughly satisfying" . Pittsburgh City Paper . Retrieved 1 June 2021 . Raemisch was a professor at the Unified State Schools for Fine and Applied Art. The school was born out of a merger between two schools in Berlin.
^ a b White, Theo B. (30 January 2017). The Philadelphia Art Alliance: Fifty Years, 1915-1965 . University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-1-5128-1933-5 .
^ a b "Vase" . RISD Museum . Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago . Art Institute of Chicago. Yale University Press. 1 January 2016. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-300-22236-4 .{{cite book }}
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^ "Student Completing Raemisch Sculptures" . Newspapers.com . Pasadena Independent. 8 September 1955. p. 28. Retrieved 5 March 2022 .
^ "Watchung Man Gets Art Post" . Newspapers.com . The Courier-News. 5 July 1957. p. 5. Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ "Wolfgang Behl; Sculptor, Professor of Art" . Newspapers.com . Hartford Courant. 18 October 1994. p. 72. Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ "Wolfgang Behl, Sculptor and Teacher, 76" . Times Machine . The New York Times . p. Section B, Page 10. Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ a b "Waldemar Raemisch" . Newspapers.com . The Morning Call. 17 April 1955. p. 38. Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ "Student is completing Raemisch sculptures" . Newspapers.com . Lebanon Daily News. 18 August 1955. p. 9. Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ "Waldemar Raemisch" . Smithsonian American Art Museum . Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ "Waldemar Raemisch, Berlin, Germany 1888 - 1955 Rome, Italy" . Harvard Art Museums . Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ "Waldemar Raemisch, "Displaced Person" (1942)" . PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . 28 December 2014.
^ "Waldemar Raemisch (American, b.1888, d.1955)" . McNay Art Museum . Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
^ "Waldemar Raemisch" . Currier Museum of Art . Retrieved 1 June 2021 .
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