biografía de Kurt SELIGMANN (1900-1962)

Lugar de nacimiento: Basel, Switzerland

Lugar de defunción: Middletown, NY

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Painter, educator, writer, lecturer

Estudios: Ecole des Beaux-Arts; Geneva, Switzerland; Italy and France; E. Buchner; E. Amman; Lhote.

Exposiciones: WMAA; GGE, 1939; AIC, 1943-49; CI, 1946; Canadian Nat. Exh., 1939; WFNY, 1939; PAFA Ann., 1944-54; Corcoran Gal biennials, 1947-57 (5 times); solos in galleries in Paris, London, Milan, Rome, Tokyo, Mexico City, Hollywood, Minneapolis, NYC, and Chicago.

Obra: Albright A. Gal.; Smith Col.; Univ. Illinois; MMA; MModA; WMAA; NY Pub. Lib.; BM; AIC; PAFA; Coll. des Musees Nationaux de France; Kunstkredit, Basel, Switzerland; Coll. de la Manufacture d'Aubusson, France; Palacio Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Mus. Mod. A., Lodz, Poland.

Comentarios: Illustrator: Vagabondages Heraldiques, 1934; Hommes et Metiers, 1935; Oedipus, 1944, and others; The History of Magic, (various editions, 1948-58). Author: A History of Western Magic, 1946. Stage des. for modern and ballet dancers.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.