| Zeisler, Claire, 1903-1991 | ||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Artist | |||||||||||||||
| dates | 1903-1991 | |||||||||||||||
| city | Chicago | |||||||||||||||
| state | IL | |||||||||||||||
| other cities | Cincinnati, OH; | |||||||||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||||||||
| history |
Claire Zeisler was a collector and Fiber artist in Chicago who died in 1991. In the 1930s, she acquired paintings by European modernists including Picasso, Miro, and Klee and objects from many tribal cultures, among them African sculptures, tantric art, ancient Peruvian textiles, and more than 300 American Indian baskets. Later, she added works by postwar American artists, from Franz Kline to Robert Rauschenberg and Jenny Holzer. In 1943, Mrs. Zeisler divorced her first husband, Harold Florsheim, an heir to the Florsheim Shoe Company. She married Ernest Zeisler, a physician, and author, in 1946. Zeisler studied with Alexander Archipenko, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and weaver Bea Swartchild at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Zeisler created loom weavings and later turned them into free-standing fiber sculptures. |
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| decades | 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:17 | |||||||||||||||
| research links |
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