Helen Weinrich Knaths photograph album
name: label: Creator
content: Knaths, Helen Weinrich, 1876 or 7-1978
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago. School
label: Names
content: Knaths, Helen Weinrich, 1876 or 7-1978 -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971 -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Weinrich, Agnes, 1873-1946 -- Photographs
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1996 by Jane Jennings, grandniece of Helen and Knaths.
creator: label: Creator
content: Knaths, Helen Weinrich, 1876 or 7-1978
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Helen Weinrich Knaths (1876 or 7-1978) was born 1877 as Lena (Lee) Weinrich on a farm in Des Moines County, Iowa. Her sister, Agnes Weinrich, studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, in Paris during 1913, and beginning in 1914, in Provincetown, where she and Helen met artist and teacher Karl Knaths. Karl and Helen were married in 1922, and continued to live, with Agnes, in Provincetown during the summer, and in New York during the winter. Agnes died April 17, 1946, Karl Knaths died in 1971, and Helen died at age 102 in 1979.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume ((63 items on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.knathele
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 5140 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original in: the Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Included in the album are 61 photographs, a slide, and a clipping. Pictured are Helen; her older sister, Agnes Weinrich, including one of her in class at the Art Institute of Chicago, ca. 1906, one with Helen and others in Berlin, Germany, ca. 1899, and one of her tombstone (designed by Knaths); Helen's husband, Karl Knaths, including one of them on their wedding day, 1922, a few of him camping in New Hampshire, his studio in Provincetown, and with Helen and others; family friends and pets; the family farm in Iowa; and other locales.