text:
Allerum
Anna Fredrica Carlqvist
Betty Ehrenborg
Richard Ehrenborg
Ulla Bring
Göta Court of Appeal
administrative courts of appeal
Skaraborg County
Parliamentary Ombudsman
Riksdag of the Estates
Stockholm Municipality

categories: People from Helsingborg Municipality,1823 deaths,1788 births

paragraph: Casper Ehrenborg

paragraph: Casper Isaac Michael Ehrenborg (17 November 1788 – 16 September 1823) was a Swedish politician.

paragraph: He was born in Allerum on 17 November 1788 to parents Jöns Ehrenborg and Beata Maria Tham. His maternal grandfather was military officer Isak Tham. Ehrenborg married Anna Fredrica Carlqvist in 1811, with whom he raised three children, Betty Ehrenborg, Richard Ehrenborg and Ulla Bring.

paragraph: Ehrenborg began his legal career in the 1800s, working for the Göta Court of Appeal. He progressed through the judicial hierarchy, having been assigned to the administrative courts of appeal and to the Skaraborg County government by 1810. In 1821, Ehrenborg was named deputy governor of Skaraborg, serving until 1823, when he was appointed Parliamentary Ombudsman of the Riksdag of the Estates. Ehrenborg died later that year on 16 September 1823, in Stockholm Municipality.

wikidata_label: Casper Ehrenborg

wikipedia_title: Casper Ehrenborg


text:
American
ice hockey
goaltender
unrestricted free agent
Hartford Wolf Pack
American Hockey League
New York Rangers
National Hockey League
2014 NHL Entry Draft
Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
Ontario Hockey League
New York Rangers
2017–18 season
Ottawa Senators

categories: People from Traverse City, Michigan,Maine Mariners (ECHL) players,Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds players,American men's ice hockey players,American ice hockey goaltenders,1996 births,Ice hockey people from Michigan,Greenville Swamp Rabbits players,New York Rangers players,Hartford Wolf Pack players,New York Rangers draft picks,Living people

paragraph: Brandon Halverson

paragraph: Brandon Halverson (born March 29, 1996) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Rangers, 59th overall, in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Halverson played major junior hockey with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). On July 2, 2015, the New York Rangers signed Halverson to an entry-level contract.

paragraph: During the 2017–18 season, on February 17, 2018, Halverson made his NHL debut with the Rangers, stopping 5 shots and allowing 1 goal, in a 6–3 loss to the Ottawa Senators.

description: American ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Brandon Halverson

wikipedia_title: Brandon Halverson


text:
Angoulême
Wright brothers
taximeter
World War I
Sélestat
Seppois-le-Bas
Sélestat
Franco-Prussian War
Angoulême
Lycée Saint-Louis
École Polytechnique
Trinity College, Oxford
Yonne
Louis Émile Javal
M. Armour
Château de Dampierre
Territet
World War II
Auschwitz concentration camp
Alfonso XIII of Spain
Sibilla Weiller y Torlonia
Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg
Jules Antoine Lissajous
selenium
Jules Verne
Marcel Brillouin
Constantin Perskyi
Boris Rosing
Ernst Alexanderson
John Logie Baird
August Karolus
Revue des deux Mondes
Le Temps
Wright brothers
Jules Lair
Institut de France
Paris–Le Havre railway
Canal de Tancarville
Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre
Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston
Compagnie Générale d'Electricité
taximeter
Renault
Taxis de la Marne
Levallois-Perret
Henri Farman
Léon Delagrange
Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe
Société Astra
Ateliers et Chantiers de France
C. Lorenz AG
J. P. Morgan
Rudolf Goldschmidt
Tuckerton, New Jersey
Guglielmo Marconi
Boulangism
Le Figaro

categories: French Senators of the Third Republic,French engineers,Members of the 11th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic,French businesspeople,Democratic Republican Alliance politicians,Senators of Bas-Rhin,Politicians from Grand Est,1858 births,1928 deaths,People from Sélestat

paragraph: Lazare Weiller

paragraph: Lazare Weiller (20 July 1858 – 12 August 1928) was a French engineer, industrialist and politician. He was born in Alsace and received a technical education in England and in his cousin's copper factory in Angoulême. He was very interested in the physical sciences, particularly the use of electricity to transmit sound and images. He proposed a system for scanning, transmitting and displaying images that was the basis for experiments by various television pioneers. He sponsored early aviation experiments by the Wright brothers. He founded several companies including a telephone wire manufacturer, a taximeter manufacturer, the first Parisian cab company to use automobiles, an aircraft company and a wireless telegraphy company.

paragraph: He was a deputy during World War I (1914–18) and then a senator until his death.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Lazare Weiller was born in Sélestat, Bas-Rhin, on 20 July 1858.

paragraph: His parents were Leopold Weiller (born 1807) and Reine Ducasse/Duckes (born 1819).

paragraph: He came from a Jewish family of Alsace.

paragraph: His grandfather, Bar Koschel, had applied for French citizenship in Seppois-le-Bas in 1808, took the name Bernhard Weiller, settled in Sélestat and became a "Judaic teacher".

paragraph: His father Léopold, a trader, married Reine Duckes, a servant.

paragraph: His family became wealthy.

paragraph: Alsace became part of Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War.

paragraph: Weiller's mother was an ardent patriot and wanted him to study in France.

paragraph: He was sent to Angoulême to stay with his uncle Moïse Weille while he attended school.

paragraph: His uncle had a business making metal fabrics for the paper industry that he had transferred from Sélestat to Angoulême.

paragraph: Weiller went on to the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris.

paragraph: He was not able to enter the École Polytechnique due to health problems, and instead went to Trinity College, Oxford, in England to improve his English and study Greek, physics and chemistry.

paragraph: After his military service he joined his uncle's company in Angoulême.

paragraph: In 1882 Weiller converted to Catholicism.

paragraph: He married his niece Marie Marguerite Jeanne Weiller, but she died soon after.

paragraph: In 1883 Weiller founded the Société Lazare Weiller to make telephone and telegraph wire, which later became the Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre (TLH).

paragraph: On 12 August 1889 Weiller married Alice Javal (1870–1943) in Paris.

paragraph: She was the daughter and granddaughter of deputies of Yonne.

paragraph: Her father was Louis Émile Javal (1839–1907).

paragraph: Javal was an ophthalmologist, author of many papers on eye care and eye defects, who was deputy from 1885 to 1889.

paragraph: Their children were Jean-Pierre (born 1890), Marie-Thérèse (born 1890), Georges-André (born 1892) and Paul-Louis (1893–1993).

paragraph: Weiller visited the United States in 1901 and was very impressed by the booming economy and the metallurgical, electrical and mechanical industries.

paragraph: He wrote a book on the subject, "Les grandes idées d'un grand peuple" (The Great Ideas of a Great People).

paragraph: Weiller met the men who controlled the Chicago meat trusts, whom he called "simple, energetic and gentle men who were completely absorbed in their work, except perhaps M. Armour and his associate, M. [Arthur] Meeker, both of whom are passionate about automobiles."

paragraph: He visited the theater in New York, where he found the plays to be mediocre, although the performers were animated.

paragraph: He tried to explain the racial prejudice he found during his stay in Washington,

paragraph: Later he wrote a series on "Souvenirs d'Amérique" in a Strasbourg newspaper.

paragraph: He observed that the working men of the USA had "a fine sense of their own worth, so that they did not suffer the bitterness and the meanness of class envy, an inestimable boon".

paragraph: They did not, as in Europe, form great radical political parties with the aim of overthrowing the existing order, but instead devoted all their effort to rising to a higher social level.

paragraph: Weiller lost control of TLH when copper prices collapsed in 1901.

paragraph: At that time he also had to sell his Château d’Osny and his magnificent collection of paintings.

paragraph: However, he recovered and went on to found ventures such as a large fleet of Parisian automobile taxis, a manufacturer of airplanes and a wireless telegraphy company, and was on the board of various other companies.

paragraph: Emmanuel Chadeau sees Weiller as a good entrepreneur who did not have the managerial skills needed to operate the firms he founded.

paragraph: Weiller was a deputy for Charente from 1914 to 1919, and a senator from 1920 until his death.

paragraph: In 1920 Weiller bought the Château de Dampierre, a large 19th-century building close to the "Chais Magelis" in Angoulème.

paragraph: He also built a luxury villa in Cannes, and bought the Hôtel de la lieutenance in Sélestat.

paragraph: Lazare Weiller died in Territet, Vaud, Switzerland on 12 August 1928.

paragraph: During World War II his wife was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died on 7 September 1943.

paragraph: His grandson Paul-Annick Weiller married the granddaughter of Alfonso XIII of Spain, and his great-granddaughter Sibilla Weiller y Torlonia married Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg.

paragraph: Section::::Science and technology.

paragraph: Weiller was very interested in the physical sciences, and particularly electricity.

paragraph: In October 1889 he published a major article "Sur la vision à distance par l’électricité" (On vision at a distance by electricity) where he proposed a way to scan, transmit and project images.

paragraph: Weiller said he was inspired by the experiments by Jules Antoine Lissajous, who had used light reflected from small mirrors to investigate vibratory motion.

paragraph: His proposal was to use a rotating drum to which a number of tangential mirrors were attached, oriented so the image was scanned into a series of lines projected onto a selenium cell.

paragraph: The resulting electrical signal was transmitted over a wire, converted by a "telephone à gaz" back to light that was shone onto an identical mirror drum synchronized with the first drum, which would project the image onto a screen.

paragraph: Jules Verne wrote a short story for the "New York Forum" about a phonotelephotograph machine based on Weiller's invention, which he imagined to have finally become a reality in 2889 AD.

paragraph: Weiller's article on television did not have an immediate impact.

paragraph: The French researcher Marcel Brillouin wrote in the "Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées" (Paris, 30 January 1891) that "M Weiller's 360-mirror cylinder ... is almost impossible to construct if you want fidelity."

paragraph: Constantin Perskyi did not mention the proposal in a 1900 paper on television by means of electricity.

paragraph: Later the concept was used by television pioneers in the US, UK and Germany such as Boris Rosing, Ernst Alexanderson, John Logie Baird and August Karolus and was commercially available by 1932.

paragraph: Weiller did not follow up on his television invention, but instead turned to wireless telegraphy.

paragraph: Weiller wrote papers on scientific subjects such as "Etudes électriques et mécaniques sur les corps solides" (1885) and "Traité général des lignes et transmissions électriques" (1892), as well as many articles in the "Revue des deux Mondes" and "Le Temps".

paragraph: Weiller was involved in early aviation experiments, and devoted 500,000 francs to helping the experiments of the Wright brothers, particularly to those of his friend Wilbur Wright.

paragraph: On 23 March 1908 Weiller agreed on terms for the French rights to the Wright brothers' invention.

paragraph: The patents were later used by his Compagnie de navigation aérienne.

paragraph: Weiller was a member of the Société de Physique, the Société internationale des électriciens and the Société des ingénieurs civils among others.

paragraph: Section::::Industry.

paragraph: While working at his cousin's copper fabric factory Weiller became interested in the problem of drawing copper wires, for which there was growing demand.

paragraph: He adapted the process of rolling hot steel rods to making copper wire.

paragraph: Weiller created the Société Lazare Weiller in 1883, with its first factory in Angoulême, and was the main owner of the enterprise.

paragraph: He developed a bronze alloy that combined the conductivity of copper with the strength to remain stretched between poles apart, of great value to telegraph and telephone companies, and obtained several patents in France and other countries.

paragraph: Weiller collaborated with Jules Lair of the Institut de France in manufacturing and distributing telephones in France.

paragraph: Weiller joined the board of the Société des téléphones, which was both a customer and an investor in his company.

paragraph: Weiller acquired land along the Paris–Le Havre railway and the new Canal de Tancarville in 1895, and in 1896 built a larger factory at Graville in the Le Havre region.

paragraph: In 1898 the Le Havre factory included forges, foundries, rolling mills and wireworks and processed copper, steel, aluminum, brass, bronze and nickel.

paragraph: The bulk of the output was for electrical equipment and construction of telephone and telegraph lines.

paragraph: In 1901 the company became the Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre (TLH).

paragraph: Weiller became associated with Swiss banks, and from 1907 started to acquire facilities and companies to build a huge industrial complex.

paragraph: TLH grew through acquisitions and mergers to gain a dominant position in the industry.

paragraph: In 1913 TLH's assets were 57,800,000 francs, making it the 22nd largest industrial company in France, and the third largest manufacturer of electrical equipment after the Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston and Compagnie Générale d'Electricité.

paragraph: Weiller manufactured "taximeters" to measure mileage and founded the first automobile cab company in Paris.

paragraph: He founded the taximeter company in 1903 and the Société des fiacres automobiles (Automobile Cab Company) in 1905 in partnership with banks and car manufacturers.

paragraph: In 1905 the company ordered 250 8-horsepower 2-cylinder type AG cars from Renault, later called the "Taxis de la Marne".

paragraph: Renault started serial production to fill the order.

paragraph: The cars were fitted with taximeters.

paragraph: As of 1911 the Compagnie des Fiacres Automobiles had more than 3,000 of the small red Renault automobiles.

paragraph: A new town was built in Levallois-Perret where seven or eight thousand employees and workers prepared or drove the "automobiles de place".

paragraph: In 1908 Weiller was president of the TLH, the Chantiers de Dunkerque, the Chantiers de Normandie and the Société métallurgique bordelaise.

paragraph: He was a board member of the Entrepôts du Havre, the Docks de Rouen and the Compagnie des Voitures de Place in Paris.

paragraph: He worked with the Banque française de l'Afrique du Sud and the Maison de Banque Bauer et Marchal.

paragraph: The Weiller family also had interests in German Alsace.

paragraph: In 1908 Weiller created a prize of $10,000 for the first person to achieve flight in France.

paragraph: By June 1908 the recent flights of Henri Farman and Léon Delagrange had reduced Weiller's confidence in the Wrights.

paragraph: Wilbur Wright wrote that he was "about scared out".

paragraph: By the end of the year these doubts had vanished as the Wright brothers made repeated demonstrations of their machines.

paragraph: Weiller formed a syndicate, the Compagnie Générale de Navigation Aérienne (CGNA: General Air Navigation Company), to market aircraft using the Wright design.

paragraph: Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe was his partner in the venture.

paragraph: They did not build the machines, but contracted with the airship firm Société Astra and the Ateliers et Chantiers de France of Dunkirk for the airframes and with Bariquand et Marre for the engines.

paragraph: Weiller had interests in both the Chantiers de Dunkerque and Barriquand et Marre.

paragraph: The CGNA was not particularly profitable.

paragraph: It claimed to have received 50 orders for airplanes, but probably did not deliver more than 25.

paragraph: The first flight was made on 3 February 1909.

paragraph: In September 2012 Weiller created the Compagnie universelle de télégraphie et téphonie sans fil (CUTT: Universal Wireless Telegraphy Company).

paragraph: He was president, and participants included the German firm C. Lorenz AG, French banks and investors, and the American banker J. P. Morgan.

paragraph: CUTT bought Rudolf Goldschmidt's patents for use outside Germany from Hochfrequenmaschinen AG für drahtlose Telegraphie (Homag) and bought its Tuckerton, New Jersey, station.

paragraph: The station was to be delivered as soon as it was completed by Homag.

paragraph: Weiller worked with Guglielmo Marconi to set up the first transatlantic telegraphy station, which Telefunken opened in Hamburg in 1913.

paragraph: The CUTT was forced out of business due to nationalist outrage at a French telegraphy service depending on an alliance between a Jew and a German.

paragraph: In September 1913 the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company purchased the patents and CUTT shares from Weiller.

paragraph: Weiller was also director of various mining and electrical companies.

paragraph: Section::::Politics.

paragraph: Weiller ran for election to the Chamber of Deputies in 1888 as a republican candidate for Angoulême during the Boulangism crisis, but was defeated.

paragraph: In 1914 at the request of the government Weiller visited Switzerland and wrote a report on German propaganda abroad and the shortage of raw materials in Germany.

paragraph: He was elected deputy for Charente from 10 May 1914 to 7 December 1919.

paragraph: In the chamber he spoke for the people of his native Alsace, which was occupied by Germany at that time.

paragraph: He sat with the left, and was a member of the committees on tax legislation and on posts and telegraphs.

paragraph: In 1917 Weiller submitted a project for the people of Alsace-Lorraine to adopt French versions of their [German] names to "protect them from public malignity and the reprisals of the mob".

paragraph: It was rejected for patriotic reasons, since the Alsace-Lorrainers were considered to have always been part of the French family.

paragraph: Weiller ran for reelection on 16 November 1919 but was defeated.

paragraph: He was elected senator for Charente on 11 January 1920 and reelected on 9 January 1927, holding office until his death.

paragraph: On 23 March 1920 "Le Figaro" published an article by Weiller in which he argued that France could have achieved a favorable end to the war in 1917 if she had had a representative in the Vatican during peace negotiations at that time.

paragraph: He sat with the democratic left group, and was a member of the foreign affairs committee.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: Publications by Weiller included:

description: French industrialist, inventor and politician

wikidata_label: Lazare Weiller

wikipedia_title: Lazare Weiller


text:
McKeesport
Pittsburgh
Washington County
Canonsburg
Princeton University
Wheeling
O. M. Wozencraft
George W. Barbour
Scott Bar
Shasta Butte City
Millard Fillmore
Luke Lea
Edward Fitzgerald Beale
Committee on Indian Affairs
Washington, D.C.

categories: 19th-century colonization of the Americas,1800 births,United States Indian agents,Native American history of California,People from McKeesport, Pennsylvania

paragraph: Redick McKee

paragraph: Redick McKee (7 December 1800 – 13 September 1886) was an American government official.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Redick McKee was born in the town of McKeesport which was founded by his father. When McKee was five his father died. In the autumn of 1807 his family relocated to Pittsburgh. Throughout the following decade McKee worked on a relative's farm in Washington County and for merchants in Pittsburgh. At the age of 18 he joined the Presbyterian Church as a lay member. It was a momentous occasion for McKee who recorded later that:"I seemed to live in a new world, and became desirous to serve a loving and compassionate Master." He was given the opportunity to become a priest and receive an education in Canonsburg and later Princeton University but decided against it. While still 18 McKee was hired to manage a general goods store and a storage depot in Wheeling. He organized the first Sabbath school of Wheeling in November 1818. Students from various Protestant denominations were welcomed. At particular times there were upwards of 80 students in attendance.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Indian Agent.

paragraph: McKee joined a three-man commission created by the Federal Government in 1850 to draft treaties with California Natives. O. M. Wozencraft and George W. Barbour were appointed as well and began negotiations in 1851. However they collectively lacked expertise and familiarity with either California natives or how their societies utilized their territories. The Commissioners eventually divided California into three areas so they were largely operating independent of each other. McKee was assigned the task of creating treaties with natives of Northern California.

paragraph: His party arrived on the Upper Klamath river in September 1851. There was a repeating cycle of violence and reprisals then ongoing in northern California. Local American militias were reported to be excessively violent in "revenging outrages" supposedly committed by natives. McKee and his associates toured the Shastan territories; inspecting the Shasta and Scott vallies in particular. They concluded that only the Scott could support a reservation and the agricultural work necessary to feed the Shasta. This assessment was due to the scarcity of agriculturally viable land in the Klamath Mountains. More promising areas did exist nearby but they were in Oregon.

paragraph: The Shasta wanted to retain the entirety of Scott Valley for their designated reservation. American colonists from Scott Bar and Shasta Butte City contended for possession of the valley as well. Federal officials consulted with them for what they desired in a treaty with the Shasta. They called for the removal of all Shasta to a reservation placed on the headwaters of the Shasta River. The treaty terms drafted by McKee were not particularly favored by the Shasta or American settlers. The reservation was placed in Scott Valley, although the majority of the valley was to remain in colonist possession. The area specified in the treaty for the reservation was estimated by McKee to contain four or five square miles of arable land.The location of the Shasta reservation was apparently accepted, albeit grudgingly, by most American colonists of the area.

paragraph: The treaties negotiated by McKee, Barbour, and Wozencraft amounted to 18. McKee pressed for the California legislature to accept the treaties. He argued the reservations were designed to allocate natives to keep portions of their traditional lands while keeping open the many areas bearing gold. The commissioners were stated to have always consulted with local American colonists and miners in establishing the borders of each reservation. Pointedly he went on to argue that unless if someone were to "propose a more humane and available system" the reservations had to be acknowledged by the California Government. The state rejected all treaties and instructed its representatives in Washington, D.C. to lobby against them as well.

paragraph: The treaties were endorsed by President Millard Fillmore, commissioner of Indian affairs Luke Lea and the recently appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for California Edward Fitzgerald Beale. The treaties were sent the Committee on Indian Affairs in June 1852. After a closed session the treaties were rejected. Ellison suggested that the vast amount of land set aside by the treaties and the expenditures allocated by the commissioners made the agreements unpopular in Congress. In total about or about 7% of the total land area of California was to contain the 18 reservations.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Later life.

paragraph: McKee died at his son's house in Washington, D.C. on 13 September 1886.

description: American government official

wikidata_label: Redick McKee

wikipedia_title: Redick McKee


text:
Welsh
barrister
Labour politician
Leader of the House of Lords
Lord President of the Council
Cabinet
Prestatyn
North Wales
Rhyl Grammar School
Queens' College, Cambridge
called to the bar
Gray's Inn
taking silk
Wales and Chester Circuit
Bar Council
life peer
Great Tew
County of Oxfordshire
House of Lords
Northern Ireland
Home Office
Attorney General for England and Wales
Northern Ireland
Leader of the House of Lords
sinecure
Lord Privy Seal
Lord President of the Council
Life Peerages Act
Chris Mullin
Derry Irvine
Charles Falconer
Gloucestershire
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
Interview: Lord Williams
Julian Glover
House of Lords
Leader of House of Lords dies
Lords loses smooth operator
Tributes to a superb wit

categories: 1941 births,Welsh Queen's Counsel,Lord Presidents of the Council,Attorneys General for Northern Ireland,2003 deaths,Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge,Labour Party (UK) life peers,Attorneys General for England and Wales,Queen's Counsel 1901–2000,Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom,Welsh socialists,Welsh barristers,Welsh politicians,Northern Ireland Government ministers,Leaders of the House of Lords,Lords Privy Seal

paragraph: Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn

paragraph: Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, (5 February 1941 – 20 September 2003) was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician who was Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and a member of the Cabinet from 2001 until his sudden death in 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Williams was born near Prestatyn, in North Wales, a son of Albert Thomas Williams and his wife Selina, "née" Evans. He was educated at Rhyl Grammar School and at Queens' College, Cambridge.

paragraph: Section::::Legal career.

paragraph: He had a successful legal career, having been called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1965, taking silk in 1978, being a Recorder in 1978-2003, being a Deputy High Court Judge, being the Leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit in 1987-89, and was a Member of the Bar Council in 1986-92 and became the Chairman in 1992.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: He was created a life peer on 20 July 1992 as Baron Williams of Mostyn, "of Great Tew in the County of Oxfordshire" and became an opposition spokesman in the House of Lords on Legal Affairs, and later Northern Ireland. After Labour's election victory he appointed a Home Office minister, and in 1999 became Attorney General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland. He was appointed Leader of the House of Lords in 2001, initially with the sinecure office of Lord Privy Seal, for which Lord President of the Council was substituted in 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Reputation among his colleagues.

paragraph: As part of the celebrations to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Life Peerages Act, Lord Williams was voted by the current members of the House of Lords as the outstanding life peer since the creation of the life peerage. In his book "A View from the Foothills" Chris Mullin wrote that he thought that Gareth Williams was most likely to succeed Derry Irvine as Lord Chancellor; the position was ultimately fulfilled by Charles Falconer.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Williams married first in 1962 Pauline, daughter of Ernest Clarke, and by her had two daughters, Martha (born 1973) and Emma (born 1976), and a son, Daniel (born 1981). They divorced, and he married secondly in 1994 Veena M Russell, and by her had one daughter, Imogen.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: He collapsed and died suddenly at his home in Gloucestershire, at the age of 63. He was survived by his four children.

paragraph: Section::::Styles and arms.

paragraph: Section::::Styles and arms.:Styles of address.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 19411978: Mr Gareth Williams

paragraph: BULLET::::- 19781992: Mr Gareth Williams

paragraph: BULLET::::- 19921999: The Rt Hon. The Lord Williams of Mostyn

paragraph: BULLET::::- 19992003: The Rt Hon. The Lord Williams of Mostyn

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Burke's Peerage & Baronetage" (106th edition, 1999) edited by Charles Mosley

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Interview: Lord Williams" - "Guardian Unlimited Politics" interview with Lord Williams by Julian Glover, dated Friday, 28 June 2002, giving the peer's views on reform of the House of Lords

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Leader of House of Lords dies" - BBC News article, dated Saturday, 20 September 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lords loses smooth operator" - BBC News article, dated Saturday, 20 September 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tributes to a superb wit" - BBC News article, dated Saturday, 20 September 2003

alias:
Gareth Wyn Williams
Baron Williams of Mostyn
Lord Mostyn
Mostyn J

description: Welsh politician


text: peer

text: Deborah Mitford

text: dukedom

text: Chatsworth House

text: Derbyshire

text: North Yorkshire

text: Eton College

text: Exeter College, Oxford

text: horse racing

text: Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot

text: Ascot Racecourse

text: Jockey Club

text: British Horseracing Board

text: 2009 New Year Honours

text: Wallace Collection

text: Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust

text: North Yorkshire

text: Derbyshire

text: Sotheby's

text: Chatsworth House

text: BBC

text: Chatsworth

text: Raphael

text: Heywood Hill

text: University of Derby

text: Buxton

text: St Wilfrid's Hospice in Eastbourne

text: Cavendish Pianos

text: William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

text: Commander

text: Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale

text: William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

text: Sir Thomas Dunne

text: title

text: hereditary peer

text: House of Lords

text: his mother

text: legislators

text: Lord Ferrers

text: His Grace

text: University of Derby

categories: People educated at Eton College,People associated with the University of Derby,Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford,Earls of Burlington (1831),People from Derbyshire Dales (district),1944 births,Cavendish family,Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order,Dukes of Devonshire,British people of English descent,Commanders of the Order of the British Empire,British landowners,Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire,British farmers,Living people

paragraph: Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire

paragraph: Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, (called "Stoker"; born 27 April 1944) is a British peer. He is the only surviving son of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, the former Deborah Mitford. He succeeded to the dukedom following the death of his father on 3 May 2004. Prior to this succession, he was styled Marquess of Hartington. His immediate family are owner-occupiers of Chatsworth House and are worth an estimated £800 million. Estates landscaped by the family before 1900 who maintain a luxury hotels business, are parts of Derbyshire and North Yorkshire. Other capital managed by the Duke includes fine and contemporary art, forestry and farming.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: He attended Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford, where he read History.

paragraph: Section::::Horse racing.

paragraph: The Duke is well known in the world of horse racing and served as Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot and chairman of Ascot Racecourse Ltd. In 1980 he was elected to the Jockey Club and in 1989 he was appointed its Senior Steward (that is, Chairman). During his five-year term of office, he oversaw a number of changes within the racing industry, in particular the creation of the British Horseracing Board which is now the governing authority for British racing. He was appointed first chairman of the board in June 1993 and retired at the end of his term in 1996. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to racing in 1997 and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2009 New Year Honours for his services as Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot.

paragraph: Section::::Other interests.

paragraph: He was appointed a Trustee of the Wallace Collection in 2007. He is a trustee of Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust. He is Chairman of the Devonshire Arms Hotel Group, a chain of countryside hotels in North Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and Deputy Chairman of Sotheby's. He collects modern British and contemporary painting and sculpture, as well as works in other areas, many of which are on display at his family seat Chatsworth House. The Duke and Duchess and the house and estate grounds were featured in the BBC documentary series "Chatsworth". In December 2012, he sold "Auxiliary cartoon for the Head of a Young Apostle" by Raphael for £29.7m at a Sotheby's auction. As of 2016 he is the owner of Heywood Hill, a notable bookstore in London.

paragraph: He took up the position as the third Chancellor of the University of Derby at a ceremony on 28 October 2008 in Buxton.

paragraph: The Duke is a current patron of St Wilfrid's Hospice in Eastbourne.

paragraph: The range of Cavendish Pianos were named after the family name of the Duke to recognise his support which was critical to the establishment of the new firm.

paragraph: He was the third Chancellor of the University of Derby from 2008 to March 2018. He stepped down from the role in 2018 and his son and heir, William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington was nominated and installed as the fourth and current Chancellor of the University in March 2018.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: On 28 June 1967 the future Duke married Amanda Carmen Heywood-Lonsdale, daughter of Commander Edward Gavin Heywood-Lonsdale and a descendant of Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale.

paragraph: They have three children and ten grandchildren:

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington (6 June 1969); married Laura Roundell on 31 March 2007. They have three children, two daughters and a son:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Maud Cavendish (born in March 2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- James Cavendish, Lord Cavendish (born 12 December 2010) - second in line of succession to the Dukedom of Devonshire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Elinor Cavendish (born 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Celina Imogen Cavendish (4 October 1971); married Alexander Carter on 3 June 1995. They have four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jake Carter (7 December 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alfie Carter (18 June 2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ned Carter (6 August 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Willa Carter (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Jasmine Nancy Cavendish (born 4 May 1973); married Nicholas Dunne (son of Sir Thomas Dunne) on 25 July 2003. They have three sons:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cosmo Dunne (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Barnaby Dunne (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reggie Dunne (2010)

paragraph: Section::::Titles, styles and honours.

paragraph: Section::::Titles, styles and honours.:Possibility of renouncing title.

paragraph: In February 2010, the Duke announced his intention to give up his title if hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords, on the basis that "the aristocracy is dead" and "because then it would be clear-cut what the people wanted, and it would be confusing to maintain hereditary titles". This mirrored the view of his mother, who had said "titles are meaningless because peers are no longer legislators". This was dismissed as "nonsense" by Lord Ferrers, who disagreed with the Duke's claims that the aristocracy was dead. It is not known how serious he was in his intention, but if he had gone ahead with his threat then he would have been known as "Sir Peregrine Cavendish, KCVO, CBE."

paragraph: Section::::Titles, styles and honours.:Titles and styles from birth.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 27 April 1944 – 10 September 1944: Mr Peregrine Cavendish

paragraph: BULLET::::- 10 September 1944 – 26 November 1950: Earl of Burlington

paragraph: BULLET::::- 26 November 1950 – 1997: Marquess of Hartington

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997 – 3 May 2004: Marquess of Hartington, CBE

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3 May 2004 – 2008: His Grace The Duke of Devonshire, CBE

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 – present: His Grace The Duke of Devonshire, KCVO, CBE

paragraph: Section::::Titles, styles and honours.:Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chancellor of the University of Derby (October 2008 - March 2018)

paragraph: Section::::References.

alias:
Peregrine Cavendish
Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish

description: British duke


text:
Polish
archaeologist
Węglewo
Poznań County
Kraków
Gustaf Kossinna
Berlin
Slavonic
autochthonism
Bronze Age
Lusatian culture
University of Poznań
Iron Age
Biskupin
Lusatian
Pomeranian culture
Bolko von Richthofen
World War II
Gestapo
K. Jażdżewski
Archaeologia Polona

categories: People from the Province of Posen,1885 births,Polish academics,Polish archaeologists,People from Pobiedziska,Humboldt University of Berlin alumni,1969 deaths

paragraph: Józef Kostrzewski

paragraph: Józef Kostrzewski (February 25, 1885 – October 19, 1969) was a Polish archaeologist.

paragraph: Kostrzewski was born in Węglewo (now in Poznań County). He studied first in Kraków, then from 1910 onwards with Gustaf Kossinna at Berlin and graduated in 1914. Back in Poland, he was to turn Kossinna's settlement-archaeological method (""Siedlungsarchäologische Methode"") against its creator and to try to prove a Slavonic autochthonism in Poland from at least the Bronze Age (Lusatian culture) onwards.

paragraph: Kostrzewski became professor of prehistory at the newly founded University of Poznań in 1919, and from 1934 conducted the excavation of the Iron Age settlement of Biskupin, which he continued after the war.

paragraph: After 1918, Kostrzewski became involved in bitter polemics about the ethnic ascription of the Lusatian and Pomeranian cultures with the German archaeologist Bolko von Richthofen.

paragraph: During the German occupation of Poland during World War II, Polish universities and museums were closed, the finds were often transported to Germany, and many scholars were arrested, tortured and detained, or murdered. Kostrzewski hid from the Gestapo during the war, but returned to his Poznań chair in 1945. He died in Poznań.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gród prasłowiański w Biskupine w powiecie żnińskim (Poznań 1938).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kultura prapolska (1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- with W. Chmielelewski and K. Jażdżewski, Pradzieje Polski (Wrocław 1965)

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- J. Lech, Between captivity and freedom: Polish archaeology in the 20th century. Archaeologia Polona 35–36, 1997/98, 25–222, ISSN 0066-5924

description: Polish archaeologist

wikidata_label: Józef Kostrzewski

wikipedia_title: Józef Kostrzewski


text:
Trinidadian-American
Tony Award
Best Actress in a Musical
Aida
Grammy Award
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
Audience of One
NBC
medical drama
Chicago Med
Trinidad
Fort Wayne, Indiana
McKee Street Church of God
Northrop High School
Funny Girl
Northrop High School
Northwestern University
communications
Ragtime
New York Jets
Vertical Church Band
Nala
The Lion King
Aida
Tony Award
Encores!
Do Re Mi
Nathan Lane
Randy Graff
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Dreamgirls
Audra McDonald
Lillias White
Hal David
Burt Bacharach
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
Promises, Promises
Kennedy Center
Mark Twain Prize
Neil Simon
PBS
Andrea Bocelli
Vivere Live in Tuscany
Lajatico
Italy
Vivo Per Lei
The Prayer
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
Josh Groban
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Whitney Houston
1992 movie
The Bodyguard
Adelphi Theatre
Olivier Award
What's On Stage Award
Glasgow Hydro
Leeds
First Direct Arena
Jennifer Hudson
Broadway
The Color Purple
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Netflix
She's Gotta Have It
The Lion Guard
This Is Who I Am
RCA Records
Grammy Award
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Best New Artist
In My Mind
BMG's merger with Sony
Clive Davis
In My Mind
India.Arie
Diane Martel
Hot Dance Music/Club Play
March of Dimes
Al Green
People Get Ready
Grammy Award
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
Audience of One
Andrea Bocelli
Only One in the World
America's Got Talent
Il Divo
Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
The Lion King
She's Gotta Have It
Chicago Med
Sweet Magnolias
Official website

categories: 20th-century American actresses,Neo soul singers,American stage actresses,21st-century Trinidad and Tobago actresses,Trinidad and Tobago record producers,Ballad musicians,Tony Award winners,Trinidad and Tobago female singers,American film actresses,Musicians from Fort Wayne, Indiana,Grammy Award winners,21st-century American actresses,Trinidad and Tobago stage actresses,American contemporary R&B singers,21st-century women singers,American musical theatre actresses,Actresses from Indiana,Northwestern University School of Communication alumni,Drama Desk Award winners,Writers from Fort Wayne, Indiana,Living people,Actors from Fort Wayne, Indiana,Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United States,American female singers,Record producers from New York (state),1974 births

paragraph: Heather Headley

paragraph: Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the titular role of "Aida". She also won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album for her album "Audience of One". In 2018, she recurred as Gwen Garrett on the NBC medical drama television series "Chicago Med".

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Headley was born in Trinidad, the daughter of Hannah and Eric Headley (Barbadian). In 1989, she moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana in the United States at the age of fifteen with her mother and brother Eric Junior when her father was offered a job as pastor of McKee Street Church of God with headquarters in Anderson, Indiana. Headley attended Northrop High School, and was a member of their resident show choir, Charisma, and starred as Fanny Brice in the school's production of "Funny Girl". After graduating from Northrop High School, Headley attended Northwestern University from 1993 to 1996, to study communications and musical theatre until the last day of her junior year, when she made the decision to become a part of the musical "Ragtime" and drop out of school.

paragraph: In 2003, Headley married Brian Musso, formerly of the New York Jets. Both attended Northwestern University. On December 1, 2009, they welcomed their first child John David. Headley had her second son Jordan Chase August 18, 2014. In April 2019, the couple welcomed a third child, a daughter.

paragraph: Headley regularly performs with Vertical Church Band, the worship team from Harvest Bible Chapel. She is featured in their song "How Great Is The Love" and "All Glory".

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1997, she originated the role of Nala in the Broadway musical "The Lion King". Headley's performance was well received, and she then originated the title role in the Broadway adaptation of "Aida", earning the Tony Award for Best Actress in 2000. In 1999, she appeared in the Encores! staged concert production of "Do Re Mi", with Nathan Lane, Randy Graff, and Brian Stokes Mitchell. She starred in an Actors' Fund of America benefit concert version of the musical "Dreamgirls" alongside Audra McDonald and Lillias White in 2001.

paragraph: In the autumn of 2006, Heather performed Hal David and Burt Bacharach's song "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", from the 1968 musical "Promises, Promises", for "The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2006 Mark Twain Prize", honoring playwright Neil Simon. The ceremony was later broadcast on PBS.

paragraph: On July 5, 2007, Headley made a guest appearance for Andrea Bocelli's Vivere Live in Tuscany concert in Lajatico, Italy. They performed Vivo Per Lei and The Prayer. Headley sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" (also known as "America") with Josh Groban on January 18, 2009, during the . On March 12, 2009, Headley sang "I Wish" on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".

paragraph: From November 2012 until August 2013, Headley played the role of Rachel Marron, in the musical adaptation of Whitney Houston's 1992 movie, "The Bodyguard" at London's Adelphi Theatre. She was nominated for an Olivier Award and a What's On Stage Award for this performance.

paragraph: Heather joined the Andrea Bocelli UK Tour playing Glasgow Hydro on November 23 and at the Leeds First Direct Arena on November 24, 2013.

paragraph: On May 10, 2016, Headley assumed the role of Shug Avery from Jennifer Hudson in the recent Broadway revival of "The Color Purple", which closed on January 8, 2017 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

paragraph: From 2017, Headley is co-starring in Spike Lee's Netflix reboot of "She's Gotta Have It" as Dr Jamison.

paragraph: She also voices of the part of Kitendo as Makini's Mother in The Lion Guard.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Music.

paragraph: Headley released her debut album, "This Is Who I Am", in October 2002 with RCA Records. Although its first single, "He Is", was not very successful, the second single, "I Wish I Wasn't", achieved moderate success. The work on this album earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best New Artist making her the first Tony Award winner to be nominated for this award.

paragraph: Her second album, "In My Mind" (2006) was delayed due to the various executive shake-ups associated with RCA parent BMG's merger with Sony. Under BMG North America chairman/CEO Clive Davis for the first time, Headley released her second album "In My Mind" in January 2006. The title track "In My Mind" (written and produced by India.Arie collaborator Shannon Sanders) was released as the first single; and its music video was directed by Diane Martel. The song reached number-one on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The second single "Me Time" was sent to Urban AC radio only. An album track, "Am I Worth It", served to promote Headley's New March of Dimes Educational Campaign "I Want My 9 Months".

paragraph: In 2009, Headley, along with Al Green, released a version of the song "People Get Ready" on the compilation album "".

paragraph: In January 2010 she won her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album for "Audience of One" on the EMI Gospel label.

paragraph: In December 2010, Headley performed a duet version of "Blue Christmas" and "My Prayer" with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on his "My Christmas" tour in 5 US cities. At the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, on December 4, 2010, the audience insisted on a second encore with Bocelli. Bocelli had to summon the detail to go and bring her back on stage.

paragraph: Headley released her album "Only One in the World" on September 25, 2012, with the lead single "A Little While".

paragraph: In September 2013, Headley appeared on "America's Got Talent" with Il Divo and sang "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" from "The Lion King". She also appeared with Il Divo on Broadway for a limited concert run in 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Acting.

paragraph: In 2017, Headley began appearing in recurring roles on the TV series "She's Gotta Have It". The following year, she began appearing as Gwen Garrett in a recurring role on the TV series "Chicago Med".

paragraph: In 2019, Headley was cast as one of the three leads in the Netflix series "Sweet Magnolias".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

description: Trinidad and Tobago singer and actor

wikidata_label: Heather Headley

wikipedia_title: Heather Headley


text: Frankfurt

text: track cyclist

text: Profile

text: Cycling Fever

text: EuroSport

text: Logaladies Team

categories: Sportspeople from Frankfurt,German female cyclists,1993 births,Place of birth missing (living people),Living people,German track cyclists

paragraph: Lisa Küllmer

paragraph: Lisa Küllmer (born in Frankfurt) is a German female track cyclist. She competed in the team pursuit event at the 2014 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

paragraph: Section::::Career results.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at "cyclingarchives.com"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cycling Fever

paragraph: BULLET::::- EuroSport

paragraph: BULLET::::- January 30/13 12:33 pm - Ladies Tour of Qatar Stage 2

paragraph: BULLET::::- Logaladies Team

description: German bicycle racer

wikidata_label: Lisa Küllmer

wikipedia_title: Lisa Küllmer


text:
Bulgaria
Boris I of Bulgaria
Maria
Vladimir
Simeon the Great
name of Boris's sister
Bulgarian state
Preslav
Old Bulgarian
Medieval Greek
sceptre
ktetor
Boris I

categories: Bulgarian princesses,9th-century Bulgarian people,9th-century Bulgarian women,10th-century Bulgarian people,Krum's dynasty

paragraph: Anna (daughter of Boris I)

paragraph: Anna (; 9th–10th century) was a Bulgarian princess and a daughter of Prince Boris I of Bulgaria (852–889).

paragraph: Anna was Boris's second daughter and the youngest of six children born to his second consort, Maria, which also included the rulers Prince Vladimir (r. 889–893) and Tsar Simeon the Great (r. 893–927), the princes Gabriel and Jacob and the princess Eupraxia. Anna bears the name of Boris's sister.

paragraph: Anna married the "tarkan" Simeon, an influential figure in the Bulgarian state. Like her older sister Eupraxia, Anna became a nun at a monastery in the Bulgarian capital Preslav later in her life. Her tombstone, unearthed in 1965 and written in Old Bulgarian and Medieval Greek, reveals that she died as a nun on 9 October of an uncertain year.

paragraph: The reverse side of the stone features a portrait of the princess in a loose-fitting garment, pointing her arms sideways towards a cross-domed church on each side and holding a sceptre in her right hand. Based on this portrait, it is highly likely that Anna was a "ktetor" of two churches.

paragraph: In the 1985 Bulgarian feature film "Boris I", the role of Princess Anna is played by the actress Adriana Petrova.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hýbl František: Dějiny národa bulharského. Vol. 1. Praha 1930, p. 108.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kos F.: Gradivo za zgodovino Slovencev v srednjem veku. Vol. 2. Ljubljana, p. 308.

description: Bulgarian princess and a daughter of Boris I of Bulgaria

wikidata_label: Anna

wikipedia_title: Anna (daughter of Boris I)


text:
São Paulo
modernism
Anita Malfatti
Tarsila do Amaral
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Yolanda Penteado
Campinas
Piratininga
Mogi Mirim
Fernão Dias Pais
Amador Bueno
Tibiriçá
Pablo Picasso
Marie Laurencin
Constitutionalist Revolution
appendicitis
Consolação Cemetery
Victor Brecheret

categories: Museum founders,1872 births,Women philanthropists,1934 deaths,Brazilian art patrons,People from Campinas

paragraph: Olívia Guedes Penteado

paragraph: Olívia Guedes Penteado (12 March 1872 – 9 June 1934) was a Brazilian art patron and philanthropist who established the Salón de Arte Moderna in São Paulo. She was a motivating force for the country's modernism movement. Penteado was a friend of key artists of this movement, such as Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Her niece, Yolanda Penteado, was also an art patron.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Campinas in 1872, she was the daughter of the Baron of Piratininga, José Guedes de Souza, a powerful coffee rancher in the Mogi Mirim, and Carolina Leopoldina de Almeida e Souza. Her family descended from Fernão Dias Pais, Amador Bueno, Tibiriçá, and João Ramalho. Penteado spent her childhood on her father's property, Fazenda da Barra, in Mogi Mirim. She studied at home with private tutors and for a time at Colegio Bojanas. The family later moved to São Paulo, when her father became Baron Piratininga.

paragraph: While living in Paris, Penteado met modernist friends, returning to Brazil with copies of the work of Pablo Picasso and Marie Laurencin, among others. Penteado established the Salón de Arte Moderna in 1923, when she returned to live in Brazil.

paragraph: At the age of 16, Penteado married her first cousin, Inacio Leite Penteado. She fought for women's suffrage, and actively participated in the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932. She died of appendicitis in São Paulo in 1934, and was buried in the Consolação Cemetery, São Paulo, her tomb ornamented with a sculpture titled "Sepulture", sculpted by Victor Brecheret. A railway station stop and a street are both named in her honor.

wikidata_label: Olívia Guedes Penteado

wikipedia_title: Olívia Guedes Penteado


text: Bakersfield, California

text: Allan Temko

text: architect

text: Abstract-Expressionist

text: Hassel Smith

text: Sebastopol

text: San Francisco

text: Mousehole, Cornwall (England)

text: Los Angeles

text: John Altoon

text: Bristol, England

text: University of Reading

text: Jon Groom

text: Sheffield

text: British Film Institute

text: Sean Scully

text: Barcelona

text: Catalonia

text: Lofoten Islands

text: Munich

text: Starnbergersee

text: Lucas Reiner

text: Bavaria

text: exhibited

text: Weserburg Museum in Bremen (Germany)

text: Bakersfield Museum of Art (California)

text: retrospective exhibitions

text: large-scale two-dimensional works

text: Credit Suisse, Munich

categories: American painters,Living people,1952 births

paragraph: Mark Harrington (painter)

paragraph: Mark Harrington (born 19 May 1952) is an American-born Europe-based painter who has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States since the early 1990s.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Mark Harrington was born in 1952 in Bakersfield, California, moving to the Bay Area during infancy. His close contact as a child with the author and critic, Allan Temko, continued until the latter's death in 2004. Harrington's father, Richard Harrington, was an architect and craftsman-builder whose influence in the rendering of materials and appreciation of architectural space was pronounced. His mother, Donna Raffety Smith, remarried in 1959 to Abstract-Expressionist painter Hassel Smith, moving with her two sons to an apple orchard near Sebastopol in Sonoma county, north of San Francisco.

paragraph: The influence upon Harrington of Hassel Smith was pronounced from childhood and deepened immeasurably. The family settled in the Sebastopol area for several years, making an important sea journey for a sojourn in Mousehole, Cornwall (England) during 1962-63, then moving to Los Angeles in 1965 for one year where Harrington formed an early friendship with the painter John Altoon. The family emigrated permanently to Bristol, England in 1966.

paragraph: Harrington attended art school in Sheffield (1971–75), gaining BA Hons in Sculpture with Art History. He pursued graduate studies at University of Reading (1975–77) gaining M.A. in English Literature with a dissertation on the origins of twentieth-century art criticism. He met the British German-based painter Jon Groom as a student at Sheffield.

paragraph: After a two-year period as a stonemason in England and France (church restoration), followed by sculptural propsmaking and assistant art direction for the British Film Institute, Harrington became a lecturer and department leader at Portsmouth College of Art and Design from 1979 to 1990. During this decade he met and was influenced by the painter Sean Scully.

paragraph: He established a European annexe for PCAD in Barcelona in 1989 and was resident in Catalonia until the mid-90's. Harrington resigned from his English teaching post in 1990 and was active in painting and furniture-making at his Palo Alto studio in the north of Barcelona from 1990 to late 1994. He resumed teaching in Norway in 1994, taking a position as amanuensis and later professor for painting at Vestlandets Kunstakademi, Bergen (1994–97).

paragraph: Harrington became the founding Director for Nordland Kunst og- Filmskole at Kabelvåg in the Lofoten Islands, 1997-99. He received a residency stipend from the culture department of the city of Munich in 1999-2000, at Villa Waldberta on the Starnbergersee. In 2004 he met the LA-based painter, Lucas Reiner, sharing a period of experimentation in copperplate etching.

paragraph: Harrington has maintained studios in upper Bavaria over the past decade and has exhibited his paintings widely in Europe and the United States. Weserburg Museum in Bremen (Germany) and Bakersfield Museum of Art (California) gave retrospective exhibitions to Harrington's work in April–November 2011, and March–June 2012, respectively.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: "Harrington imbeds multi-tonal veins of color into monochrome fields [...] investigating the intereaction of color and line [...] large-scale abstractions focus on space, pictorial depth and light."

paragraph: Harrington's large-scale two-dimensional works of the 80's and early 90's, executed on paper-on-canvas cut from rolls, were based on the diagrammatic profile-schema of a racing cycle frame. The 5-sided figure was rendered through multiple presentations: frontal, reverse, inverse in two directions. The repetition of overlapping lines gave opportunity for emergence of shapes and their resulting relationships within a flat planar space. During the early 90's, while based in Barcelona, Harrington interpreted a selection of these two-dimensional works as inlaid tables in hardwoods and metals.

paragraph: From 1995 Harrington's paintings on canvas and linen, initially comprising oil on gesso, subsequently synthetic acrylic components, have explored possibilities of textured ground with gestural mark-making embedded in the field, not applied. The monochromatic color fields, distressed by random elements, are crossed by drawn lines continuous from edge to edge, or severed in mid-plane. The lines are not stripes: generally horizontal, varying in width and multi-tonal, they bear evidence of mingled brush and bladework.

paragraph: Section::::Statements.

paragraph: "My paintings address the vortex of pictorial space, emphasizing format, surface, transparency and rhythmic horizontal line. I work with diptychs in an effort to resolve two parts into a singular whole. I wish for my paintings, whether large or reduced in scale, to confront the viewer within the vertical plane while provoking the sense of liberation into an unbordered expanse."

paragraph: "Mark Harrington loves the line. It runs in pulses across the canvas. Without a beginning, as though there were no fixed edge, and without an end. Line after line... Their strength varies as does their separation from each other. They are lines of force with great intensity that include the space and seem to continue along the wall."

paragraph: "[...] a fundamental concept of sculpture is evident in the work. The concept of space is defined by above and below, top and bottom, before and after. With this, it appears that the paintings can also convey a notion of the inconceivable, impalpable dimension of time."

paragraph: "At a time when abstract painting, indeed painting in general, seems on the wane, harrington produces paintings that validate the perpetual human act of visual denotation [...] recalling john cage’s musical compositions, (having) no beginning and no end, appearing like fragments of infinitude."

paragraph: Section::::Works in Collections.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen

paragraph: BULLET::::- Credit Suisse, Munich

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knorr-Bremse, Munich

paragraph: BULLET::::- Siemens, Munich

paragraph: BULLET::::- U.C.A. Aktiengesellschaft, Munich

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stortinget (Norwegian Parliament), Oslo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal

paragraph: BULLET::::- Munich Re, Singapore

paragraph: Section::::Exhibitions (selection).

paragraph: BULLET::::- North-Paintings MH, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 1998 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paintings 1999, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvaer, Norway, 1999 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Work in Process, Villa Waldberta, Feldafing, 2000 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kontemplation und ethisches Handeln, Villa Bosch, Radolfzell, 2002.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mark Harrington, Malerei, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Freising, 2002 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mark Harrington & Jon Groom, Galeri S.E., Bergen, Norway, 2003.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mark Harrington, New Works, Global Art Source, Küsnacht/Zurich, 2004 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zyklus, Christian Dam Galleries, Oslo, 2004 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- West Coast Painting, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, 2005.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Recent work, Christan Dam Galleries, Copenhagen, 2005 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tiptoe down to Art, Camera Artis, Munich, 2006.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bye Bye Mr. Blue Sky, Lazard, Brussels, 2007 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paint it Blue. ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, 2007.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paintings 2007, Christoph und Stephan Kaske Stiftung, Munich, 2007 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Shadow-line, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 2008 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Depth of Field I, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, California, 2009 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Depth of Field II, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, California, 2011 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Framing abstraction: mark, symbol, signifier, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2011.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Between Spaces (retrospective), Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, 2011 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Untitled Journey (retrospective), Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California, 2012 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Broken-Ground, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, 2013 (solo).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Painting Black, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery NYC, 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Susanne Baumgart & Julia Lachenmann (ed.), "Mark Harrington. Coast to Coast", Munich: Edition Nusser & Baumgart, 2002.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Petra Giloy-Hirtz (ed.), "Mark Harrington. East West", Dießen am Ammersee: Edition Florian Trampler, 2005.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carsten Ahrens (ed.), "Paint it Blue. ACT art collection Siegfried Loch", Bremen: Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, 2007.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marlena Doktorczyk-Donahue & Peter Selz, "Mabstraction: Mark, Symbol, Signifier", Los Angeles, California: City of Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Municipal Art Gallery, 2011.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.markharrington.net/home/

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.edwardcella.com/artist/Mark_Harrington/works/#!2104

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.nusserbaumgart.com/de/artists/artist/mark_harrington-46.html?action=profile

description: U.S. painter

wikidata_label: Mark Harrington

wikipedia_title: Mark Harrington (painter)


text:
Northwestern University
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Massine
Princeton
San Francisco Art Institute
Maurice Sterne
Clyfford Still
David Park
Elmer Bischoff
Richard Diebenkorn
Frank Lobdell
Allan Temko
Walter Hopps
Ferus Gallery
UCLA
John Altoon
Bristol Polytechnic
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oakland Museum
Plein air
Abstract-expressionism
American Figurative Expressionism
Bay Area Figurative Movement
Hard-edge abstraction
Gestural abstraction
World War II
Clyfford Still
Palace of the Legion of Honor
Elmer Bischoff
David Park
Richard Diebenkorn
Ed Corbett
Walter Hopps
Pasadena Art Museum
Ferus Gallery
Gagosian
San Francisco State University
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oakland Museum
SFMOMA
aaa.si.edu

categories: 20th-century American painters,1915 births,American male painters,American Expressionist painters,American abstract artists,Painters from California,Northwestern University alumni,2007 deaths,American Figurative Expressionism,Abstract painters,Modern painters,San Francisco Art Institute faculty,San Francisco Art Institute alumni,Abstract expressionist artists

paragraph: Hassel Smith

paragraph: Hassel Smith (April 24, 1915 – January 2, 2007) was an American painter.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Hassel Smith was born in 1915 in Sturgis, Michigan. During childhood and adolescence his family alternated between homes in Michigan and the West Coast, due to the health of his mother. He became an Eagle Scout at 15 and was an active outdoorsman for much of his adult life.

paragraph: Smith attended Northwestern University (Chicago) 1932-36. Initially a chemistry major, he graduated BSc cum laude with majors in History of Art and English Literature.

paragraph: In the Chicago of the early thirties, Smith witnessed Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo under Massine and was exposed to painting at the Worlds Fair: turning points in his development. He won a scholarship to Princeton for graduate studies in History of Art, but chose to spend two years at California School of Fine Art (now San Francisco Art Institute) in the painting and drawing class of his mentor, Maurice Sterne. "I have no hesitation in saying that to whatever extent my intellect has been engaged in the joys and mysteries of transferring visual observations in three dimensions into meaningful two-dimensional marks and shapes, I owe to Sterne."

paragraph: Smith worked with derelict and alcoholic individuals on skid row in San Francisco during the late thirties, becoming active in leftwing politics. He received a Rosenberg Traveling Fellowship in 1941 for independent study, moving to the Motherlode region of northern California. His work until the end of 1942 was made plein-air with a focus on town and landscape.

paragraph: During the war years Smith was engaged in alternative service as a timber scaler in Oregon and as a camp supervisor in the Central Valley, near Arvin, southern California. He met and subsequently married June Meyers in circa 1943-44 (their son Joseph was born in 1947). From 1945 to 1951 Smith was a celebrated teacher at CSFA working under Douglas MacAgy and Clyfford Still, alongside Ed Corbett, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn and Frank Lobdell, among many other significant artists, filmmakers and designers. He was influenced deeply by Still's 1947 exhibition at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, forming a friendship with the artist that lasted until Still's death in 1980.

paragraph: From 1953 until late 1965 Smith lived in an apple orchard outside Sebastopol, Sonoma County, painting in a self-built redwood-sided studio. His work from these years, referred to by critic Allan Temko as the "Thunderbolt period", had significant impact on artists along the entire West Coast. Smith was the only painter then based in northern California to be exhibited in Los Angeles by Irving Blum and Walter Hopps at the Ferus Gallery, during the late fifties and early sixties, which ensured Smith's singular influence on southern California painters. His paintings were shown also in New York, London and Milan, and were acquired widely in both private and public collections.

paragraph: Smith married Donna Raffety Harrington in 1959 (their son Bruce was born in 1960 - adding to Donna's sons Mark and Stephan, and Hassel's son Joseph). In 1962-63 Smith moved for one year with his family to Mousehole in Cornwall, England, occupying a studio on the quays at Newlyn.

paragraph: During 1963-65 Smith taught part-time at UC Berkeley. In 1965 he moved his family to Los Angeles, teaching at UCLA. He had contact with several southern California artists, most notably the painter John Altoon (a close friend since the fifties).

paragraph: Smith moved permanently to England in 1966 accepting a tenured teaching position at the Royal West of England Academy of Art (later Bristol Polytechnic, Faculty of Fine Art).

paragraph: Having returned to representational painting in 1964, Smith began the series of hard-edged "measured paintings" in 1970, which continued into the late eighties. He returned as guest professor to the West Coast periodically during the seventies, at UC Davis and SFAI. Major retrospectives followed at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1975, and at Oakland Museum in 1981.

paragraph: Smith retired from teaching in 1980 and moved to an eighteenth-century rectory at Rode, north Somerset. The following seventeen years were a prolific period with output in painting, drawing and printmaking. The final decade of work saw two significant stylistic shifts characterized by aspects of gestural abstraction. Illness forced suspension of work in late 1997. Hassel Smith died nine years later.

paragraph: Section::::Artworks.

paragraph: The principal phases of Hassel Smith's work form a sequence of six progressions, with a pattern of overlapping elements as each phase anticipates the succeeding:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Plein air and representational paintings of the 1940s

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abstract-expressionism of the 50's to mid-60's

paragraph: BULLET::::- American Figurative Expressionism, Bay Area Figurative Movement, and representation 1964-70

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hard-edge abstraction, the "measured paintings", 1970 to the late 80's

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gestural abstraction, late 80's to mid-90's

paragraph: BULLET::::- Late abstraction, mid to late 90's.

paragraph: Smith's paintings and drawings prior to World War II are principally plein-air studies of town and landscape locations, executed on-site from direct observation.

paragraph: During the war period, while working as a camp supervisor in the Central Valley, he made numerous drawings of field workers: "It seems to me that the drawings that I began to make of field workers and so on, are among the first things which I consider to have really quite significant quality".

paragraph: His paintings of the post-war years (1945–48) continued in representational vein reflecting Bay Area street-life and bar scenes, characterised by flattened space with frequent combination of collage elements taken from advertising and newsprint, and increasingly tough gestural brushwork. Smith's humor and social conscience are evident in the works from this period.

paragraph: Smith's most influential and widely known paintings and drawings developed rapidly from the end of the 40's, lasting into the mid-1960s. The influence of Clyfford Still's torn fields of color was apparent from an early stage, alternatively a strident dispersion of roughly applied post-pointillist strokes. By the mid-1950s Smith achieved an entirely independent stylistic language, integrating raw canvas and broad patches of color with a combination of short curving, also ruled linear markings that dance at speed across the visual plane, tightening pictorial space.

paragraph: From 1964 to 1970 Smith returned to representational painting with a series of large-scale figure compositions and street scenes; partly invented, partly observed, occasionally deriving ironically from renaissance and classical themes (Tarquin and Lucretia, Cupid and Venus, et al.: Smith's most favored artists from the past were Titian and Georges de la Tour). It is clear from the paintings of this period, as from the paintings of the 40's, that Smith's concepts of representational painting were not responsive to the academic atelier tradition. Both amusing and elegant, Smith's paintings of the late 60's form a pivotal transition from abstract-expressionism to a cool hard-edged aesthetic.

paragraph: The presence of an underlying but only partially visible grid, a modular schemata, identified the paintings of the 1970s to late 1980s as the "measured paintings". Made on recurring square and rectangular formats having the same vertical dimension, the measured paintings consist of high-density synthetic acrylic paints fabricated from separate components. There is evident use of compass and straight-edge without taped lines, yet vigorous brushwork within the boundaries of drawn elements. By the mid-70's the supporting grid was undetectable beneath an interplay of squares, rectangles, triangles, circles of varying dimensions embraced within tonal fields.

paragraph: The emergence of apparently random brushstrokes and markings, tenuously confined by the compositional schema of late-series measured paintings, led to complete disintegration of the grid strategy as the visual plane surrendered to an opulent gestural abstraction (1987 to 1994). Vortices of clustered multi-tonal strokes grow and diminish, explosive and wave-like, within fields of thinly tinted canvas. Made from high-density acrylic components, paintings of this period suggest simultaneously the density of oil with the translucency of aquarelle. A counterpoise of planar solidity and spatial infinitude contributes to vitality and allure.

paragraph: Regrettably few paintings comprise the final group of Smith's works, executed in the three years before a Parkinsonian illness prevented further output. Rarely exhibited and little-known, they are an amassing of gestural marks into solid shapes whose tonal contrasts and soft edges create interlocking dramas of pictorial space. Hassel Smith's last works are consistent with his signature West coast sensibility, yet there is a compelling tenderness and fragility.

paragraph: A large group of drawings, graphite and ink on paper, date from 1996 to 1997.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1967 National Endowment for the Arts - "distinguished service to American art"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1981 Art Commission of the City and County of San Francisco - "outstanding achievement in painting"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1988 Cunningham Endowed Chair, College of Notre Dame (California)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1991 Honorary Doctorate, San Francisco Art Institute

paragraph: Section::::Collections (selection).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York

paragraph: BULLET::::- Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles

paragraph: BULLET::::- Berkeley Art Museum, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Houston Museum of Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- Los Angeles County Art Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Menil Collection, Houston

paragraph: BULLET::::- New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

paragraph: BULLET::::- Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oakland Museum of California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Palm Springs Desert Museum, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Phoenix Museum of Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portland Art Museum, Oregon

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saint Louis Museum of Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- San Francisco Airport

paragraph: BULLET::::- San Jose Museum of Art, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santa Monica Museum of Art, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Snite Museum of Art, Logan, Utah

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sonoma County Art Museum, Santa Rosa, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Arts Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tate Gallery, London

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

paragraph: BULLET::::- Washington University, St. Louis

paragraph: BULLET::::- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

paragraph: Section::::Exhibitions.

paragraph: Hassel Smith exhibited extensively on both coasts of the US, and in western Europe, from the late 1930s onwards. His first noted solo exhibition was curated by Jermayne McAgy at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, in 1947.

paragraph: Group exhibitions with Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and Ed Corbett followed swiftly, during the late 40’s and early 50’s. Smith was included in the significant 1955 exhibition, ‘Action Painting’, at the Merry-Go-Round Building in Santa Monica, curated by Walter Hopps. Five years later, Smith’s first retrospective was curated by Walter Hopps at Pasadena Art Museum (1961).

paragraph: Smith joined the LA-based Ferus Gallery in 1958 and received four solo exhibitions over a five-year period. His work was featured in the Ferus retrospective at Gagosian (NYC) in 2002. From the mid-50’s to the mid-60’s Smith exhibited at The New Arts in Houston, and at galleries in New York, London and Milan. In 1964 Smith was invited to participate in the Whitney Biannual and received a second retrospective at San Francisco State University. Major retrospectives followed at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1975) and Oakland Museum (1981). Smith’s work was included in the pivotal 1996 exhibition, ‘The San Francisco School of Abstract-Expressionism’, curated by Susan Landauer, at SFMOMA.

paragraph: Section::::Statements.

paragraph: Some of these paintings either tend to be or are about games, rules of the game and the strategies required to win without cheating. ALL of the paintings are about building, being in or getting out of cages, whether gilded or not. About being in and getting out of a cage while leaving the cage intact - Houdini stuff! The images include painting oneself into the middle of a room, papering over doors and windows, sitting on a limb while sawing it off next to the trunk. (January 1977)

paragraph: In auditory terms SILENCE is discernible only in relation to NOISE, the reverse being equally true. The two states are functions of one another. The corners of a canvas are events with a necessary dimensional "interval" between them but that does not imply that the interval is without "eventfulness," is in other words, "nothing." (1980)

paragraph: [...] as far as I am concerned I'm bringing the painting into much closer relation with music, the dance with verse, and the various discursive art forms in which rhythmic sequences play a role. (1988)

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Petra Giloy-Hirtz (ed.), "Hassel Smith. Paintings 1937-1997", Munich/London/New York: Prestel Publishing, 2012.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Exhibition catalogue "Hassel Smith", San Francisco: Weinstein Gallery, 2012.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kirk Varnedoe (et al.), "Ferus", New York: Rizzoli, 2002.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Susan Landauer, "The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism", Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- aaa.si.edu

alias:
Hassel Wendell Smith
Hassel W. Smith Jr.
Hassel Wendell Smith Jr.
Hassel W. Smith
Hassel Wendell Smith (jr.)

description: American painter (1915-2007)

wikidata_label: Hassel Smith

wikipedia_title: Hassel Smith


text: Ghana

text: sculptor

text: Nigeria

text: bottle-top

text: aluminum pieces sourced

text: Anyako

text: Volta Region

text: Ghana

text: University of Science and Technology

text: Kumasi

text: Ghana

text: University of Nigeria

text: Nsukka

text: Nsukka group

text: John McDonald

text: metropolitan

text: William Kentridge

text: Johannesburg

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text: Winneba

text: Nsukka

text: University of Nigeria

text: kente cloth

text: Studio Museum

text: Harlem

text: New York

text: Brooklyn Museum

text: Clark Art Institute

text: Metropolitan Museum of Art

text: National Museum of African Art

text: Fowler Museum at UCLA

text: Venice Biennale

text: Hayward Gallery

text: Liverpool Biennial

text: Gwangju Biennale

text: Museum for African Art

text: Royal Ontario Museum

text: Toronto, Ontario

text: Canada

text: United States

text: University of Michigan Museum of Art

text: Africa

text: London

text: San Francisco

text: New York

text: Skoto Gallery

text: Sol LeWitt

text: Venice Biennale

text: Palazzo Fortuny

text: Robert Storr

text: Nsukka

text: Enugu

text: Lagos

text: Africa

text: New York

text: Brooklyn Museum

text: Akron Art Museum

text: Des Moines Art Center

text: Bass Museum of Art

text: Forum for African Arts

text: Dakar Biennale

text: Civitella Ranieri Foundation

text: Ghana National Art Competition

text: College of Art in Kumasi

text: Ghana

text: Nsukka

text: Zweites Symposium Nordesekkuste

text: Cuxhaven

text: West Germany

text: Venice Biennale

text: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

text: Praemium Imperiale

text: Museum of Arts and Design

text: Prince Claus Award

text: National Museum of African Art

text: Harvard University

text: Big 4 (statue)

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text: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

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text: El-Anatsui.com

text: "El Anatsui"

text: Victoria & Albert Museum

text: Inception Gallery Contemporary Art

text: "El Anatsui"

categories: 21st-century sculptors,Ghanaian sculptors,20th-century Ghanaian sculptors,Laureates of the Prince Claus Award,University of Nigeria, Nsukka faculty,1944 births,Ghanaian artists,People from Volta Region,Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni,Living people

paragraph: El Anatsui

paragraph: El Anatsui [ah-nah-ch-wee] (born 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. The youngest of 32 children, El Anatsui lost his mother and was raised by his uncle. He looked for "something that had more relationship to me, as someone growing up in an African country". El Anatsui wanted to "draw connections between consumption, waste, and the environment". As he would say, "Art grows out of each particular situation, and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws up". He has drawn particular international attention for his "bottle-top installations". These installations consist of thousands of aluminum pieces sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with copper wire, which are then transformed into metallic cloth-like wall sculptures. From such materials used which may seem stiff and sturdy are actually free and flexible which often helps with manipulation when installing his sculptures.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: El Anatsui was born in Anyako, in the Volta Region of Ghana, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana. His work with sculpture and wood carving started as a hobby to keep alive the traditions he grew up with. He began teaching at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1975, and has become affiliated with the Nsukka group. Critic John McDonald has commented: "It has taken many years to find artists who can occupy a prominent place on the global circuit while choosing to reside outside the metropolitan centres. William Kentridge has made his reputation from Johannesburg, and El Anatsui has conquered the planet while living and working in the Nigerian university town of Nsukka." During one interview with the artist, Anatsui revealed that his first experience with art was through drawing letters on a chalkboard.

paragraph: Section::::Artistic practice.

paragraph: Anatsui's preferred media are clay, wood and found objects, which he uses to create sculptures based on traditional Ghanaian beliefs and other subjects. He has cut wood with chainsaws and blackened it with acetylene torches. After Anatsui's move from Winneba to Nsukka to pursue a career in education at the University of Nigeria. Wood became less accessible to him. This drove him to pursue clay as a medium. Anastui's "Broken Pots: Sculpture by El Anatsui" was a series of vessels formed by shards of existing and created pottery. This series was Anatsui's first experiment with using many parts to create a whole. Often providing new context or meaning to the pieces he was using. More recently, he has turned to installation art. Some of his works resemble woven cloths such as kente cloth but were not intended as textiles, but as sculptures. These works are made from found objects, usually metal bottle caps which are tied together with wire to create vast sculptures that resemble tapestries. Anatsui incorporates "Adinsubli" for his works, an acronym made up of uli, nsibidi, and Adinkra symbols,alongside Ghanaian motifs.

paragraph: With his metal hangings continuing to spread over the world, Western art critics began to connect Anatsui's work with potential art historical references in order for them, foreigners, to create familiarity. For example, one mentions that his bottle tops could be compared to "Duchamp's bicycle wheel" and "recall disparate Modernist sweet spots without quite settling into any familiar category."

paragraph: Section::::Exhibitions.

paragraph: In 1990, Anatsui had his first important group show at the Studio Museum In Harlem, New York. He also was one out of three artists singled out in the 1990 exhibition "Contemporary African Artists: Chaning traditions which was extended for five years".

paragraph: El Anatsui has since exhibited his work around the world, including at the Brooklyn Museum (2013), the Clark Art Institute (2011), Rice University Art Gallery, Houston (2010), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008–09); National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. (2008); Fowler Museum at UCLA (2007); Venice Biennale (2007); Hayward Gallery (2005); Liverpool Biennial (2002); the National Museum of African Art (2001); the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2001); the 8th Osaka Sculpture Triennale (1995); the 5th Gwangju Biennale (2004); and the Venice Biennale (1990).

paragraph: A 2010 retrospective of his work, entitled "When I Last Wrote to You About Africa", was organized by the Museum for African Art and opened at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It subsequently toured venues in the United States for three years, concluding at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

paragraph: In 1995, Anatsui held his first solo exhibition outside of Africa in London, which helped open the eyes of non-Western artists. He expressed a variety of themes and demonstrated how African art can be shown in a multitude of ways that are not seen as "typical" African. His work utilized conceptual modes that were used by European and American artists but hardly in African countries.Anatsui showed his work at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in 2005. This was his first time "appear[ing] as part of the permanent collection in a major art museum." His New York exhibition at the Skoto Gallery, "Danudo," created a bridge between his work and the international art world. At this gallery, Skoto Aghahowa presented Anatsui's wood wall panels alongside Sol LeWitt's drawings. "Danudo" was the first displaying of his metal sheets in an American city. This exhibition popularized his bottle-cap works as he gained more recognition in the press.

paragraph: El Anatsui was invited to the Venice Biennale in 2006 and again in 2007 where two hanging metal tapestries were commissioned from Anatsui. Here he introduced his work into the contemporary art world. During the 2007 edition, he exhibited his works at the Palazzo Fortuny which consisted of newly-built walls for him to display three metal hangings entitled "Dusasa". Each artwork demonstrated different textures and colors ranging from golds, reds, and blacks. The way the bottle tops draped throughout the hangings created a sense of gentleness that made it stand apart from the other works in the gallery. Art curator of the Biennale, Robert Storr, mentions that the artist's series "reaches back into a whole series of things in the postwar period-it has a kind of exaltation I have not seen before."

paragraph: His career did not spur suddenly, starting in his home village of Nsukka and branched off to other places such as Enugu and Lagos, and eventually internationally. During this Venetian showing, Anatsui wanted to create a new experience for his viewers conceptually. He believes that "human life is not something which is cut and dried. It is something that is constantly in a state of change." At this point, he began to refer his metalworks as hangings instead of "cloths" and uses his inspiration and materials from Africa to speak about humanity.

paragraph: A major exhibition of recent works, entitled "Gravity & Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui", had its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. Organized by the Akron Art Museum (exhibition: 2012), the exhibition later travelled to the Des Moines Art Center (2013–14) and the Bass Museum of Art in Miami (2014).

paragraph: Section::::Other activities.

paragraph: El Anatsui was selected to act as a member on the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA ) world council in 1992 for his work in education. El Anatsui became the founder member and fellow of the Forum for African Arts in the year 2000. That year he also became a member of the International Selection Committee for the Dakar Biennale in Senegal. In 2001 he was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy.

paragraph: Section::::Recognition.

paragraph: Section::::Recognition.:Awards.

paragraph: El Anatsui won an honorable mention at the First Ghana National Art Competition during his time as an undergraduate student in 1968. The following year he was awarded with the Best Student of the Year and his College of Art in Kumasi, Ghana. In 1983 he artist won a commission for two public large scale sculptures on the Nsukka campus, made of terrazzo surfaced cement. He was selected to be one of ten artists invited to the Zweites Symposium Nordesekkuste residency in Cuxhaven, West Germany in 1984.

paragraph: In 1990, El Anatsui was invited to the 44th annual Venice Biennale show ""5 Contemporary African Artists"" where he received an honorable mention. This year he was selected for inclusion into the American documentary Nigerian Art-Kindred Spirits.

paragraph: In 2015 the Venice Biennale awarded El Anatsui the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

paragraph: In 2017 El Anatsui was awarded the Praemium Imperiale, the first Ghanaian to win the international art prize.

paragraph: Other awards include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1990 – Public Prize, 7th Annual Triennale der Kleinplastik

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995 – Kansai Telecasting Prize, 6th Osaka Sculpture Triennial

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998 – Bronze Prize, 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennial

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 – Visionaries! Award, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 – Prince Claus Award

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 – Artist Honoree, 30th Anniversary Celebration, National Museum of African Art

paragraph: Section::::Recognition.:Honorary degrees.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016 – Honorary doctorate, Harvard University

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big 4 (statue)

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "EL Anatsui, Tsiatsia", "", read online.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "El Anatsui (born 1944), Sculptor", "Benezit Dictionary of Artists", read online, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lisa M. Binder, "Anatsui, El (born 1944), sculptor", "Grove Art Online", read online, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ian Chilvers and John Glaves-Smith, "Anatsui, El (1944–)", "A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art", read online, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anne Hart Jennifer, "El Anatsui (1944)", "Dictionary of African Biography", read online, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Simon Ottenberg, "New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka group", Smithsonian Institution Press 1997,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oguibe, Olu. "El Anatsui: Beyond Death and Nothingness", "African Arts," Vol.31, No.1 (1988), pp.48-55+96, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3337623

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gayer, J. (2008). El Anatsui : Gawu. Espace, (86), 39–40. id.erudit.org/iderudit/9058ac

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- El-Anatsui.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- "El Anatsui" at Praemium Imperiale.

paragraph: BULLET::::- QuickTime Virtual Reality Image of "Akua's Surviving Children" at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, by Jonathan Greet

paragraph: BULLET::::- Doug Britt, "El Anatsui lets chance, collaboration into his work", "Houston Chronicle", 25 January 2010.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inception Gallery Contemporary Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- El Anatsui piece at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- "El Anatsui", Art21. (n.d.). Retrieved December 8, 2016.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'The Installation of El Anatsui's "Dusasa l" (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art). Retrieved 17 January 2017.

alias:
Anatsui El Dela
Kwami Anatsui
Emmanuel Kwami Anatsui

description: Ghanaian artist

wikidata_label: El Anatsui

wikipedia_title: El Anatsui


text:
nicknamed
Swedish
professional
rally
World Rally Championship
RAC Rally
Lancia Fulvia 1.6 Coupé HF
European Rally Championship
Datsun 160J
1976
Acropolis Rally Greece
1977
1979
1973 Safari Rally
Datsun 1800 SSS
Shekhar Mehta
Rallye Côte d'Ivoire
Toyota
Juha Kankkunen
Björn Waldegård
Harry Källström at RallyBase

categories: World Rally Championship drivers,1939 births,Swedish rally drivers,European Rally Championship drivers

paragraph: Harry Källström

paragraph: Harry Källström (30 June 1939 - 13 July 2009), nicknamed "Sputnik" , was a Swedish professional rally driver who debuted in 1957 and competed in the World Rally Championship in the 1970s. Prior to the forming of the WRC, Källström won the RAC Rally in a Lancia Fulvia 1.6 Coupé HF in 1969 and 1970. In 1969, he also captured the European Rally Championship title.

paragraph: Partnered with Claes-Göran Andersson, and driving a Datsun 160J, he took his only World Rally Championship victory at the 1976 Acropolis Rally Greece. At the same rally and in the same car, he finished third in 1977 and 1979.

paragraph: His fourth podium appearance in the world championship was a second place at the 1973 Safari Rally in a Datsun 1800 SSS. This was the first WRC event to end in a dead heat; he and Shekhar Mehta ended on the same penalty points (6 hours and 46 minutes) but Mehta was awarded the win due to being the fastest in the opening stages. At the 1985 Rallye Côte d'Ivoire, Toyota teammates Juha Kankkunen and Björn Waldegård repeated this feat.

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paragraph: BULLET::::- Harry Källström at RallyBase

alias:
Sputnik Källström
Harry Kallstrom
Sputnik Kallstrom

description: Swedish rally driver

wikidata_label: Harry Källström

wikipedia_title: Harry Källström