Gustave Von Groschwitz

T. F. Gustave Von Groschwitz (April 16, 1906 – 1991) was an American art administrator who served as director of the Carnegie Museum of Art and associate director of the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.^[1]

Biography

Von Groschwitz was born on April 16, 1906, in New York City. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1927 and his M.A. from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 1949 with a thesis titled "The Original Lithograph in Color in the XIXth Century."^[1]

During the Great Depression, he served as the head of the graphics art division of the Federal Art Project in New York City.^[2][3] He was appointed curator of prints at Wesleyan University in 1938, and curator of prints of Cincinnati Art Museum in 1947, concurrently serving as an adjunct faculty member of the University of Cincinnati. He was made chief curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum and organized six international biennales of lithography.^[4][5][6]

From 1963 to 1968, he was the director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, and organized the 1964 and 1967 Carnegie International.^[7][8][9]

In 1968, he joined the faculty of the University of Iowa, where he was associate director of the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, before retiring in 1974.^[10][11][12]

Von Groschwitz died in 1991.

References

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2. "Oral history interview with Gustave Von Groschwitz, 1964 December 9". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
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7. "Art: Pittsburgh Prizes; International Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Assembles 400 Works". The New York Times. 1964-10-30. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
8. Neal, Kenneth (1996). A Wise Extravagance: The Founding of the Carnegie International Exhibitions 1895-1901. University of Pittsburgh Pre. ISBN 978-0-8229-7172-6.
9. Kinard, Agnes Dodds (1995). Celebrating the First 100 Years of The Carnegie in Pittsburgh, 1895-1995. The Carnegie. ISBN 978-0-88039-030-9.
10. "An Art Museum for the University of Iowa". Art Journal. 29 (1): 48–50. 1969-09-01. doi:10.1080/00043249.1969.10794671. ISSN 0004-3249.
11. Boyd, Willard L. (2019-05-15). A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-60938-652-8.
12. "For Faculty". Art Journal. 34 (1): 72–78. 1974. ISSN 0004-3249. JSTOR 775874.