Waldemar Raemisch

Waldemar Raemisch (19 August 1888 – 16 April 1955) was a German-born American sculptor and educator.[1]

Waldemar Raemisch
Born(1888-08-19)19 August 1888
Berlin, Germany
Died16 April 1955(1955-04-16) (aged 66)
Rome, Italy
OccupationSculptor
SpouseGertrude Ruth Gallad (m. 1919–1955; death)
Sculpture of a Preacher (1952) by Waldemar Raemisch in Samuel Memorial, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

Biography

Waldemar Raemisch was born 19 August 1888 in Berlin, Germany. In 1919, he married metalsmith and enamelist, Gertrude Ruth (née Gallad).[2] After marriage his wife went by the name Ruth Raemisch.

His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[3] Prior to World War II, he taught at the United State Schools for Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin.[4] In 1937, Raemisch was forced to leave Germany due to the rise in Nazi power, his wife was Jewish.[5]

The same year, starting in 1937, Raemisch began to teach at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).[5] He later served as the head of the Sculpture Department at RISD from 1946 to 1954.[6] Raemisch had many notable students including Peter Muller-Munk,[4][7] Gilbert Franklin,[8] Cornelius C. Richards,[9] and Wolfgang Behl.[10][11]

Death and legacy

He had traveled to Rome in 1955, to complete a 19 figure sculpture that would be public art in Philadelphia.[12] On 16 April 1955, he died at Salvator Mundi Hospital in Rome after an emergency surgery on his intestines.[12]

After Raemisch's death, Raemisch's former student and a sculpture professor at RISD, Gilbert A. Franklin (1919–2004) completed the 19 figure sculpture commission.[13]

His work is included in the public museum collections including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[14] Rhode Island School of Design Museum,[6] Harvard Art Museums,[15] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[16] McNay Art Museum,[17] Currier Museum of Art,[18] among others.

References
  1. "Waldemar Raemisch". American Art. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  2. Jazzar, Bernard N.; Nelson, Harold B. (2006). Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980. Long Beach Museum of Art. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-9712772-8-1.
  3. "Waldemar Raemisch". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  4. Wasserman, Nadine. "The Carnegie's retrospective on silversmith and product-designer Peter Muller-Munk is thoroughly satisfying". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 1 June 2021. Raemisch was a professor at the Unified State Schools for Fine and Applied Art. The school was born out of a merger between two schools in Berlin.
  5. White, Theo B. (30 January 2017). The Philadelphia Art Alliance: Fifty Years, 1915-1965. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-1-5128-1933-5.
  6. "Vase". RISD Museum. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  7. American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago. Yale University Press. 1 January 2016. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-300-22236-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. "Student Completing Raemisch Sculptures". Newspapers.com. Pasadena Independent. 8 September 1955. p. 28. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  9. "Watchung Man Gets Art Post". Newspapers.com. The Courier-News. 5 July 1957. p. 5. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  10. "Wolfgang Behl; Sculptor, Professor of Art". Newspapers.com. Hartford Courant. 18 October 1994. p. 72. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  11. "Wolfgang Behl, Sculptor and Teacher, 76". Times Machine. The New York Times. p. Section B, Page 10. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  12. "Waldemar Raemisch". Newspapers.com. The Morning Call. 17 April 1955. p. 38. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  13. "Student is completing Raemisch sculptures". Newspapers.com. Lebanon Daily News. 18 August 1955. p. 9. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  14. "Waldemar Raemisch". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  15. "Waldemar Raemisch, Berlin, Germany 1888 - 1955 Rome, Italy". Harvard Art Museums. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  16. "Waldemar Raemisch, "Displaced Person" (1942)". PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 28 December 2014.
  17. "Waldemar Raemisch (American, b.1888, d.1955)". McNay Art Museum. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  18. "Waldemar Raemisch". Currier Museum of Art. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
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