William hunt diederich biography

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich
American, born Hungary
(Hungary, - , Nyack, New York)

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich was born in Hungary on May 3, (1) His father, Colonel Ernest Diederich, raised horses for the Prussian cavalry.

His mother, Elinor Morris Hunt, was the daughter of the American painter William Morris Hunt and niece of the architect Richard Morris Hunt.

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich (May 3, – May 14, ) was a German American sculptor and painter.

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich (May 3, – May 14, ) was a German American sculptor and painter.

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A talented artist with a remarkable sense of design, Diederich had a magnetic personality and was quite unencumbered with bourgeois scruples.

Biography.

Though Diederich's father died when he was three, the family continued to live in Hungary until when they moved to Boston to live with Diederich's grandfather, William Morris Hunt. In Boston, Diederich was enrolled in a private academy but was eventually expelled because of his "high spirits".

Unperturbed, he traveled west and worked as a cowboy in Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

Diederich returned to Boston in and began to take classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he became friends with the sculptor Paul Manship.

In , his first two works were publicly exhibited. He traveled to Spain in and upon his return