Maguerite Hohenberg

Artist Details

• First Name Maguerite
• Maiden Name Kurz
• Surname Hohenberg
• Spouse’s Full Name Arnold F. Hohenberg; Viennese aristocrat, graduate of a school in Dresden; broker
• Birth Date August 16, 1882
• Birth Place Vienna, Austria
• Death Date October 3, 1972
• Death Place Zion, Illinois
• Ethnicity Austrian
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Gouache, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Exhibitions History November 1937: Roullier Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1941-1946: Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York, New York
  
  1961: Retrospective, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  February  ?-March 9, 1962: Student Union, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
  
  North Shore Art Association
• Collections Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
  
   
• Publications Bulliet, C.J. “Marguerite Hohenberg,”  Chicago Daily News, June 17, 1939; reproduced on Illinois Historical Art Project website 
• Memberships Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  North Shore Art Association
• Other Occupation(s) while a student at Chicago Academy of Fine Arts: assistant to Leon Pescheret, instructor in interior design
  
  Owner of Gallery of Non-Objective Painting, 102 E. Oak St, Chicago
  
  interior decorator
• Biography came to United States at age 6