Hildegarde haas biography of mahatma gandhi
For Gandhi worked, prayed, and fasted, tirelessly for religious harmony and for unity and justice for all, whatever race or religion they came..
Hildegard lived in the twelfth century in Germany and for many years her work was forgotten, returning to prominence only in the late twentieth century.
Hildegarde Haas [née Vogel], painter and printmaker, was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Edith and Kurt Vogel on April 19, 1926. In 1937, the Vogels left Germany and emigrated to the United States, settling in Dallas, Texas where Hildegarde attended Highland Park High School.
She took summer classes at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and then studied for two years at the University of Chicago.
In 1949, she received a scholarship to the Art Students’ League in New York, where she studied under Vaclav Vytlacil and Morris Kantor. Haas was completely self-taught as a printmaker and explored the woodcut medium with other students at the Art Students’ League, learning "as she went.” She was included in the 16 Newcomers show at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery in New York in January 1949.
In 1950, Haas was included in the American Color Woodcuts exhibition at the George Binet Gallery in New York that was in cooperation with the Print Club of Philadelp