Rachel Beiser

Artist Details

• First Name Rachel
• Surname Beiser
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date possibly about 1902
• Birth Place Budapest, Hungary
• Ethnicity Hungarian
• Residence(s) 1939: 858 29th St., Des Moines, Iowa
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Des Moines, Iowa
• Categories Sculptor
• Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Albin Polasek
  University of Chicago; student of Walter Sargent
  The School of Woodworking, Carmel, California; student of Charles Marshall Sayers
   
  
• Exhibitions History 1926:  First Annual Student Art Exhibition, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Iowa Artists Club exhibit, Yonkers Galleries, Des Moines, Iowa
  
  Des Moines Association for Art Education, Yonkers Galleries, Des Moines, Iowa
  
   
• Awards 1938: second place, sculpture, Iowa Art Salon, Iowa State Fair
• Other Occupation(s) art teacher, Smouse School, Des Moines, Iowa
  
  teacher of modeling, department of adult education, Des Moines Schools
• Biography parents probably Isaac Beiser (September 10, 1870-April 22, 1927) and Paula Beiser (1873-June 18, 1936)