Trude Guermonprez

Trude Guermonprez
Photo from 1938, by Paul Guermonprez
Born
Gertrud Emilie Jalowetz

(1910-11-09)9 November 1910
Danzig, German Empire (now Gdańsk, Poland)
Died8 May 1976(1976-05-08) (aged 65)
San Francisco, California, US
Other namesGertrud Emilie Jalowetz Guermonprez Elsesser
EducationBurg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
Known forWeaving
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1939; died 1944)​

John Elsesser
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(m. 1951)​
FatherHeinrich Jalowetz
RelativesBoris Aronson (brother in law)

Trude Guermonprez (born Gertrud Emilie Jalowetz; 1910 –1976), was a German and American textile artist, designer and educator, known for her tapestry landscapes. Her Bauhaus-influenced disciplined abstraction for hand woven textiles greatly contributed to the American craft and fiber art movements of the 1950s–1970s, particularly during her tenure at the California College of Arts and Crafts.

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