Background
Walter Farmer was born in Alliance, Ohio, and received bachelor"s degrees in mathematics and architecture from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Walter Farmer was born in Alliance, Ohio, and received bachelor"s degrees in mathematics and architecture from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Bachelor, Bachelor of Architecture, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1935. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Miami University, Ohio, 1973.
He drafted the Wiesbaden manifesto, which led much of the artwork the United States Army had collected during World World War II to be returned to their countries of origin. He went on to be active as a genealogist and was prominent in the museum field in Ohio and Texas. His marriages to Josselyn Liszniewska and to Renate Hobirk ended in divorce.
Farmer died of cancer 11 August 1997 at the age of 86 at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati.
As part of the, Farmer was put in charge of the Wiesbaden art collection point at the end of World War Two. The collection points were Allied locations where artwork and cultural artifacts that the Nazi regime had confiscated and hidden throughout Germany and Austria were processed, photographed, and redistributed.
Member Common for Protection and Salvage Artistic and History Monuments in War Areas United States State Department, 1945-1946. Founder, 1st president of the board Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 1945-1949. Founder Walter I. Farmer Museum, Miami University, 1978.
Chairperson O'Byronville Business Association, 1971-1973. Member special committee for Park Board City of Cincinnati Served to captain, United States Army, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations, retired colonel research. Member American Institute of Architects (affiliate), American Society Interior Design (state Board of Governors, president), Institute Practicing Designers, Society Architectural Historian, Society ColonialWars, Cincinnati Art Museum (life), Taft Museum (life), Military Order World Wars, Print and Drawing Circle (president), Literary Club (trustee, vice president, president), Delta Phi Delta, Phi Mu Alpha.
Married Renate M. Wichelmann, June 15, 1947 (divorced 1966). 1 child, Margaret C.