Charmion Von Wiegand
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Charmion Von Wiegand (1896 - 1983) was an American journalist, and art critic best known as an abstract painter.
Von Wiegand was born in Chicago and grew up in Arizona, San Francisco and as a teenager lived in Berlin for three years. When she returned to the United States she attended Barnard College for a year and then transferred to Columbia University to study journalism, theater, and art history. She din't complete her bachelors degree, and thought she may become a playwright, at this time she also began to paint landscapes.
In 1929 she traveled to Moscow where she became a correspondent for the Universal Service of the Hearst Press. She returned to the United States in 1932 and married Joseph Freeman. She continued to write, working as an art critic and in spring 1941 she interviews Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. She became close friends with Mondain and began making abstract art, and became an associate member of the American Abstract Artists in 1941, exhibiting with them from 1948.
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum. Charmion Von Wiegand
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