Oral history interview with Heinz Warneke
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 51 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Warneke, Heinz (Heinrich), 1895-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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: Warneke, Heinz (Heinrich), 1895-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Heinz (Heinrich) Warneke (1895-1982) was a sculptor from East Haddam, Connecticut.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 November 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.warnek82
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 Heinz Warneke conducted 1982 November 8, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Warneke speaks of his childhood and education near Bremen, Germany; his early work in Europe for the German war monuments commission; his immigration to the United States; his career in St. Louis, Missouri and Washington, D.C.; his involvement with sculpture for federal buildings in the 1930s; his later work.