Emil Weddige

Emil Albert Weddige was born in 1907 in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada to American parents of French, German and Windot Indian (Native American) background. He received a bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1934, and later studied under Morris Kantor at the Art Students League, New York, and under Emil Ganso in Woodstock, New York. In 1937 he served as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he received a Master of Design degree (1937) and was appointed Instructor. In 1949 he established a second studio in Paris, France. In 1957 the University of Michigan appointed him Professor of Art. In 1974 the University of Michigan appointed him Professor Emeritus, and Eastern Michigan University bestowed an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts upon him.

An internationally prominent lithographer, Weddige had more than 100 one-man exhibitions in the United States and Europe, received more than 25 major awards, and published a book on his technique, Lithography (1966). Weddige's work is in the permanent collections of more than a dozen museums, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Smithsonian institution, the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Chicago Art Institute. His lithographs also appear in public buildings throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan.

source: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Emil Weddige papers

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