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Charmion Von Wiegand
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The Ancestral Altar from I Ching, 1954, oil and pencil on canvas, 30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm). Brooklyn Museum[1]
Born1896[2]
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.[2]
Died1983[2]
New York, New York, U.S.[2]
NationalityAmerican[2]
Known forPainter, Journalist, Art critic[2]
MovementNeo-Plasticism[2]

Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983) was an American journalist, abstract painter, and art critic. She was the daughter of Inez Royce, an artist, and Karl Henry von Wiegand, the German-born journalist and known for wartime reporting.[3]

Life and career

Von Wiegand was born in Chicago in 1900, grew up in Arizona and California, attended a public school in San Francisco, and lived for three years in Berlin as a teenager. The she attended Barnard College for a year and then transferred to Columbia University School of Journalism where she studied journalism, theater, archaeology, Greek, philopsphy and art history. She did not complete her bachelor's degree and thought she may become a playwright; at this time she also began to paint in 1926 while receiving psychoanalytic therapy.

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In 1929, she traveled to Moscow where she became a correspondent for the Universal Service of the Hearst Press. She returned to New York in 1932, began painting landscapes and married communist activist and writer Joseph Freeman the same year[2][4] or in 1934.[5] She continued her work as an art critic, and in spring 1941 interviewed the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian when she was comissioned to write an article about him by The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. She became close friends with Mondrian, who influenced her to start creating abstract art. She became an associate member of the American Abstract Artists in 1941, a full member in 1947 and exhibited with them from 1948.

Charmion Von Weigand became much more interested in Theosophy, Buddhism and oriental styles, especially after Modrian's death.


See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The Ancestral Altar from I Ching". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Charmion Von Wiegand". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Charmion von Wiegand (1896 — 1983) chronology". Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  4. ^ "Charmion von Wiegand (1896 — 1983)". Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  5. ^ Wald (p. 183.)

References

  • Wald, Alan M. (2001). Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5349-8.

Rembert, V. P.. (1983). Charmion von Wiegand's Way beyond Mondrian. Woman's Art Journal, 4(2), 30–34. http://doi.org/10.2307/1357943

Further reading

  • Back to the Future: Alfred Jensen, Charmion von Wiegand, Simon Gouverneur, and the Cosmic Conversation, exhibition catalogue. Loyola University Chicago, 2009. ISBN 0-9815835-1-2
  • Wiegand, Charmion (1943). "The Meaning of Mondrian" (PDF). The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 2 (8 (Autumn, 1943)). Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics: 62–70. doi:10.2307/425946.


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