Oral history interview with Nelli Bar Wieghardt
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wieghardt, Nelli Bar, 1904-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago
label: Names
content: Illinois Institute of Technology
label: Names
content: Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Wieghardt, Nelli Bar, 1904-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Nelli Bar Wieghardt (1904-2001) was a sculptor and instructor of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania and Chicago, Illinois.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 105 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 July 9-1989 April 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wiegha87
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Nelli Bar Wieghardt conducted 1987 July 9-1989 April 29, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Wieghardt discusses her and her husband Paul Wieghardt's art training in Germany; their move to Paris in 1931; their emigration to the United States in 1940 and their involvement with Quaker refugee programs; their move to a hostel in Cummington, Massachusetts and subsequent employment at the Cummington School in the Hills and the Berkshire Museum; their move in 1943 to Philadelphia to set up and run an art department for the Friends Neighborhood Guild; exhibitions at the Carlen Galleries and their relationship with Albert Barnes; the move in 1946 to Chicago and their teaching careers and methods at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology; the University of Chicago, and the Evanston Art Center; their exhibition history; and the Wieghardt galleries at the State Museum, Ludensheid.