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|  Known for his stylized Art Deco figures and animals in iron and
large-scale mural works in metal, Wilhelm Hunt Diederich was born in
Szent-Grot, Austria-Hungary into an eminent family, including William
Morris Hunt and the architect, Richard Morris Hunt. He emigrated to
America in 1894, and eight years later traveled West (1902), spending a
couple of years in Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona living as a cowboy.
He
became friends with sculptor Paul Manship while studying with him at
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and they later traveled to
Europe together. Diederich also went to Africa and ended up traveling
and working in Europe for ten years. In Paris he studied at the
Academy Julian from 1904 to 1905, and became friends with Elie
Nadelman, Jules Pascin and Ferdinand Leger. He also spent long periods
in southern France and Mexico.
He was well known in the upper
circles of international society and respected by his fellow
sculptors. Exhibition venues included the Pennsylvania Academy,
Art Institute of Chicago, Salon d'Automne, Museum of Modern Art and the
Salons of America. He was active in the art colony of Woodstock, New
York and exhibited with the Woodstock Art Association.
He
produced little after 1928, when he fell from a ladder, injuring his
leg, in his castle in Germany. He returned to the United States
and lived in Tappan, New York.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art |
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