Marguerite Wildenhain

Who was Marguerite Wildenhain?

Marguerite Wildenhain, born Marguerite Friedlaender, was a French-born, German and later American ceramic artist, educator and author. In the second half of her life, having emigrated to the U.S. in 1940, she conducted summer workshops at Pond Farm, her remote mountain-top home and studio near Guerneville, California, and wrote three influential books, Pottery: Form and Expression, The Invisible Core: A Potter's Life and Thoughts, and …that We Look and See: An Admirer Looks at the Indians. Artist Robert Arneson described her as "the grande dame of potters,".