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David Von Schlegell (May 25, 1920 – October 5, 1992) was an American abstract artist, sculptor and educator. [1] Early life and education. David von Schlegell was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1920, the son of American impressionist artist William von Schlegell and painter Alice "Bae" Anderson. [2] .
- American
- October 5, 1992 (aged 72), New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
- David von Schlegell, May 25, 1920, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
David von Schlegell’s three-part work at the base of Museum Hill is one of the first sculptures that Storm King’s founders commissioned. Designed specifically for its current site, it is comprised of a series of delicate, open cubes and reaches twenty feet into the air.
David von Schlegell, an abstract sculptor and painter who was also a professor emeritus at the Yale University School of Art, died yesterday at St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven. He was 72...
Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 29 min. Summary: Interview of David Von Schlegell, conducted by Dorothy Gees Seckler for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in New York on June 5, 1967.
David Von Schlegell. born St. Louis, MO 1920-died New Haven, CT 1992. Born. St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Died. New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Active in. Guilford, Connecticut, United States. Nationalities. American. Works by this artist (59688 items) Activity/Lab. Museum in My Pocket: An Off-the-Wall Art Game.
- May 25, 1920
- October 5, 1992
Announcements. David Von Schlegell. Fellow: Awarded 1974. Field of Study: Fine Arts. Competition: US & Canada. Yale University.
David Von Schlegell’s 1972 Storm King project was a masterwork of less-is-more sculpture; delicate and spare, a line of open-frame cubes on thin legs marched along the hillsides. His India Wharf project, also of 1972, placed repeated angled slabs in modular arrangements—the linear gone planar, but just as precise, with a similar economy of ...
