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Paul Soldner
Ceramics
American
(Summerfield, Illinois, 1921 - 2011, Claremont, California)


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Biography

Paul Soldner was born in Illinois in 1921. He currently resides in Aspen, Colorado, and Claremont, California. Soldner started out as a pre-med student, but after serving as a medic for three and a half years during World War II, he realized he was no longer interested in medicine. Instead, he earned a B.A. in art from Bluffton College in Ohio and realized his artistic aspirations. He then went on to earn an M.A. at the University of Colorado and an M.F.A. at the Otis Art Institute in California. He has had numerous teaching positions at the College of Wooster, Ohio; Scripps College, California; University of Colorado; University of Iowa; and Claremont Graduate School, California. Soldner’s work has been exhibited nationally, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Aspen Art Museum, and internationally, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, England; Hetjens Museum, Germany; and the Nagoya Museum of Fine Art, Japan. His work is held in the collections of the Oakland Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Japan. This would be the first piece by the artist to enter SJMA’s collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2006)

Biographical note from ULAN on Paul Soldner:
Ceramist inspired by the Japanese firing technique known as raku created spontaneous sculptural vessels often in very large scale. He was the first student of Peter Voulkos, founder of the ceramics program at the Los Angeles County Art Institute. Soldner authored "Kilns and Their Construction" (1965) and "Nothing to Hide: Exposures, Disclosures and Reflections" (2008).


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