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    Title

  • Erna Weill : pictured with her work in her studio

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 14 x 16 cm

  • Date

    undated

  • Place of Publication

    [Teanneck, NJ]

  • Summary

    Erna Weill puts final touches on her sculpture of Elie Wiesel.

  • Depicted

    Weill, Erna, 1904-1996

  • Subject

    Portraits, Women; Sculptors; Artists; Sculpture

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Erna Weill Collection, AR 1417

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Erna Weill née Helft was born in 1904 in Frankfurt am Main. She studied sculpture with Helene von Beckerath, a student of August Rodin, at the University of Frankfurt. She married the chemist Ernst Weill, and the couple had two children. The family fled Germany in 1936 for Switzerland and immigrated to the United States in 1937. Erna Weill stayed in the New York City area, where she worked as a sculptor and art teacher. Next to busts of famous people, her sculptures were connected to the American Civil Rights Movement and the world of Judaism. In addition to working as an art teacher in public schools, she also had her own art school where she applied progressive teaching methods. Erna Weill died in 1996.

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Citation

Erna Weill : pictured with her work in her studio, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3482.