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Elsie Caroline Krummeck

Elsie Caroline Krummeck (1913–1999) was American artist and industrial designer.[1]

Elsie Caroline Krummeck
Born(1913-12-05)December 5, 1913
New York, New York
DiedMay 29, 1999(1999-05-29) (aged 85)
Los Angeles, California
Other namesElsie Krummeck Crawford
Alma materParsons School of Design
Known forPainter
Spouse(s)Victor Gruen, Neil Crawford

Krummeck was born on December 5, 1913, in New York City.[2] She attended the Parsons School of Design. She began her career by designing exhibitions for the 1939 New York World's Fair.[3] In 1940 she married the architect Victor Gruen with whom she had two children.[4][5] The couple created the firm Gruen & Krummeck.[6] In New York the firm worked on creating specialty shops including Barton's Bonbonniere on Broadway.[3]

The firm relocated to Los Angeles, California.[7] There they worked on a number of commercial projects including the designing buildings for Grayson Clothing, R. H. Macy & Co., Joseph Magnin, and Milliron's.[5] Krummeck and Gruen divorced in 1951 and their firm dissolved around the same time.[8]

Krummeck career focused on planters, outdoor sculpture and street furniture in the L.A. Modernist style.[9] She had an association with the Architectural Fiberglass company that produced some of her designs.[10]

In 1958 she married the architect Herbert Neil Crawford. They divorced in 1972.[11]

Krummeck died On May 29, 1999, in Los Angeles.[2][3]

Krummeck's work was exhibited in the 1951 show Good Design at the Museum of Modern Art.[12] Her work was also included in the 1994 show Goddess in the Details--Product Design by Women at the Pratt Institute and the 1998 exhibition L.A. Modern & Beyond at the Pacific Design Center.[3]

Several of her pieces are in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art[13] and the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago.[14]

References edit

  1. ^ Cronin, Jeffrey (2019). "Krummeck, Elsie Caroline (5 Dec. 1913–29 May 1999), artist and industrial designer". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.013.17920. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Elsie Krummeck". Archinform. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Oliver, Myrna (3 June 1999). "Elsie Krummeck Crawford; Artistic Industrial Designer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Reclaiming a seat at architecture's table: Elsie Krummeck". die architektin. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Dreams and Regrets". Landscape Architecture Magazine. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Gruen and Krummech". Archinform. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  7. ^ Malherek, Joseph (2022). Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968. Central European University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-963-386-447-0.
  8. ^ "Victor Gruen Papers [finding aid]. Manuscript Division" (PDF). Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  9. ^ "L.A. Modernism, 1919-1980" (PDF). Los Angeles City Planning. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  10. ^ "How To Unforget". Alexandra Lange. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Elsie Krummeck". Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD). Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  12. ^ "Elsie Krummeck". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Elsie Krummeck Crawford". LACMA Collections. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  14. ^ "Elsie Krummeck". Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

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