Background
Wicht, John Von was born on February 3, 1888 in Malente, Germany. Son of Alfred and Adele (Strohmeyer) von Wicht.
Wicht, John Von was born on February 3, 1888 in Malente, Germany. Son of Alfred and Adele (Strohmeyer) von Wicht.
Student private art school of Grand Duke of Hesse, Darmstadt, 1909-1910. Bachelor of Arts, Academy School, Berlin, 1912.
Came to the United States, 1924, naturalized, 1936. One man shows include Artists Gallery, New York City, 1944, Kleemann Gallery, New York City, 1946, 47, Passedoit Gallery, New York City, 1950, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 58, John Herron Institute, Indianapolis, 1953, Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Philadelphia, 1954, Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1959, Santa Barbara (California) Museum Art, 1959, Pasadena (California) Museum, 1959, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York City, 1960, also in Paris, Belgium, Madrid. Exhibitions include Metropolitan Museum Art, Museum Modern Art, Whitney Museum American Art, Corcoran Bienniel, Pennsylvania Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Carnegie Institute, National Academy, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Boston Museum Fine Arts, numerous others United States and Europe.
Representative permanent collections Musee Doctorate’Art Moderne, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Library of Congress, Baltimore Museum, Museum Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum, Yale Art Gallery, Riverside Museum, New York City, Cincinnati Museum, West. F. Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Jewish Museum, New York City, also in Madrid, Stockholm and Liege, Belgium, university private collections.
Executed mural commissions and mosiacs in New York City, Miami, Florida, Trenton, New Jersey, Saint Louis, Montreal, Canada, Brooklyn, Brewton, Alabama, Helsingfors, Finland, Knoxville, Tennessee, New York World’s Fair. Teacher Art Student’s League, New York City, summers 1951-1952.
Visiting artist John Heron Art School, 1953.
Member American Abstract Artists, Audubon Artists (director), American Society Contemporary Artists (medal of merit 1966), Federation Modern Painters and Sculptors, International Institute Arts and Letters.
Married Kunigunde Petz, December 31, 1912.
