1. Trude Guermonprez's parents were Austrian and were active in the arts.
25 Facts About Trude Guermonprez
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Trude Guermonprez's mother was Johanna Jalowetz, was a voice teacher and bookbinder and her father was Heinrich Jalowetz was a musicologist and conductor.
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We can assume that Trude Guermonprez was inspired by the revolutionary artistic surroundings of her parents, while working at Het Paapje designing different textiles.
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Trude Guermonprez learned weaving while living in Halle, Germany, where she attended Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design.
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Trude Guermonprez married a Bauhaus trained photographer in 1939, Paul Guermonprez, and they lived together in the Netherlands.
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Paul Trude Guermonprez was working as a graphic designer and founded his own advertising company Co-op 2, prior to getting drafted for the Dutch army.
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Paul Trude Guermonprez died in 1944 by Nazi execution, while fighting in the Dutch resistance.
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Trude Guermonprez went into hiding until the end of World War II.
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Trude Guermonprez moved to the United States in 1947, with the support of Anni Albers.
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Trude Guermonprez started her teaching career in the 1940s at Black Mountain College.
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In 1947, Trude Guermonprez began teaching weaving and design at Black Mountain College while Anni Albers was away on sabbatical, and to be with her mother Johanna Jalowetz and sister Lisa Aronson, who were at the school.
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Trude Guermonprez remained at Black Mountain College until the dissolution of the weaving program in 1949.
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In 1954, Trude Guermonprez joined the faculty of California College of the Arts.
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Trude Guermonprez's students included Kay Sekimachi Stocksdale, Sheila O'Hara, Ann Wilson, and Jane Lackey, among others.
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Trude Guermonprez additionally worked teaching at Oakland College, and at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Trude Guermonprez sometimes worked with her husband John Elsesser who would build furniture, and Guermonprez would create textiles for upholstery.
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Trude Guermonprez combined the painterly possibilities of silkscreen with the structural geometry implicit in warp and weft to create fiber wall hangings that are both texturally rich and delicately drawn.
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Trude Guermonprez was known to paint directly on the warp.
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Trude Guermonprez had two solo exhibits at the De Young Museum, one in 1964 and one 1970.
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Trude Guermonprez was awarded the Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects for her "distinguished creative design" in textiles and weaving.
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Trude Guermonprez was a fellow at the American Craft Council.
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Trude Guermonprez lived together with a companion women weaver at an easy walking distance from Het Paapje, along the Papenlaan in a typical picturesque, Dutch landscape; with meadows, straight ditches, cows and farmhouses.
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Trude Guermonprez made six hangings together with another companion weaver.
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Trude Guermonprez exposes a rich variation of weaving techniques, forming basic figurative elements in a beautiful composition.
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Trude Guermonprez died on 8 May 1976, after a short illness at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, California.