Edmund Teske collection
Scope and Contents
This collection has been designated Archive Group (AG) 15. The papers are organized in one box of three folders all pertaining to an exhibition catalog for Edmund Teske relating to his show at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 1974.
Dates
- 1974
Creator
- Teske, Edmund (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English
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Biographical Note
Edmund Rudolph Teske was born March 7, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois to Polish immigrant parents, Rudolph and Olga Teske. He studied music from a young age and was introduced to photography using a Seneca Scout box camera around the age of 7. In 1936 he met both Alfred Stieglitz, who inspired him, and Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom he developed a professional relationship and was invited to artistically be a member of the Fellowship at Wright’s Taliesin Studio in Wisconsin. In 1943 he moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked at Paramount Studios in the photographic stills department. In later years, Teske was employed as a teacher at Chouinard Art Institute, worked as an actor, and continued his experimental techniques in photography of artists, musicians, and entertainers. Teske died at age 85 on Nov. 22, 1996 in his Los Angeles studio of an apparent heart attack.
Chronology:
- 1911: Born in Chicago on March 7
- 1923: Learns darkroom techniques from his grammar school teacher, Mabel A. Porehouse
- 1931: Attends Huttle Art Studio studying painting and drawing
- 1936: Received Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship for work at Spring Green,Wisconsin; traveled to New York, met Alfred Stieglitz
- 1943: Moved to Hollywood, worked in stills department at Paramount Pictures
- 1945: Introduced to and influenced by Hindu mythology and symbolism as taught by Swami Prabhavananda
- 1954: First one-man exhibition
- 1960: Included in exhibition The Sense of Abstraction at the Museum of Modern Art
- 1965-70: Teaches at University of California, Los Angeles as a visiting professor
- 1975: Granted a NEA Fellowship
- 1979: Teaches at California State University, Los Angeles as a visiting professor
- 1993: Exhibition Being and Becoming: Photographs by Edmund Teske, J. Paul Getty Museum
- 1996: Dies in Los Angeles (November 22)
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Text, dummy, and layout to an exhibition catalog for Edmund Teske(1911-1996), photographer and teacher, relating to his show at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 1974.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged in order: catalog text, catalog dummy, catalog layout
Custodial History
This collection was a gift of Haddad's Fine Arts, Inc., Buena Park, California, in 1978.
Processing Information
Processed in fall of 1984 by Roger Myers
Electronic version created by Amy Rule in June 1998.
Finding aid updated by Susan Mergenthal in 2016.
Source
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Film (Organization)
- Title
- Edmund Teske Collection 1974
- Author
- Finding aid created by Lenox Wiese
- Date
- © 2016
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English .
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
