Martin P Eidelberg was born on January 30,1941 and is an American professor emeritus of art history at Rutgers University and an expert on ceramics and Tiffany glass.
10 Facts About Martin Eidelberg
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Martin Eidelberg is noted for discovering that many floral Tiffany lamp designs were not personally made by Louis Comfort Tiffany, but by an underpaid and unrecognized woman designer named Clara Driscoll.
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Martin Eidelberg then attended Princeton University, where he studied art history.
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Martin Eidelberg taught at Rutgers University from 1964 until his retirement in 2002.
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Martin Eidelberg found a series of letters that Clara Driscoll had written to her mother and sisters, which led to new research about the famous Tiffany lamps.
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Martin Eidelberg was quoted in 2007 in The New York Times as saying "I think Tiffany would have died" if information had leaked out that Driscoll was the real designer of the famous lamps.
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Martin Eidelberg's discovery led to an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, which garnered intense media attention.
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In 1987, Martin Eidelberg wrote what one reviewer called a "handsome, graphically arresting catalogue" entitled From Our Native Clay which traces the history of the art-pottery movement.
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Martin Eidelberg has written about artisans such as William H Grueby, Artus van Briggle, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, S Bing, and Edward Colonna.
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In 2009, Martin Eidelberg was Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University.