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Elsie Caroline Krummeck
Born(1913-12-05)December 5, 1913
New York, New York
DiedMay 29, 1999(1999-05-29) (aged 85)
Los Angeles, California
Other namesElsie Krummeck Crawford
Alma materParsons School of Design
Known forPainter
Spouse(s)Victor Gruen, Neil Crawford

Elsie Caroline Krummeck (1913–1999) was American artist and industrial designer.[1]

Krummeck was born on December 5, 1913, in New York City.[2] She attended the Parsons School of Design. She began her career by designing exhibitions for the 1939 New York World's Fair.[3] In 1940 she married the architect Victor Gruen with whom she had two children.[4][5] The couple created the firm Gruen & Krummeck.[6] In New York the firm worked on creating specialty shops including Barton's Bonbonniere on Broadway.[3]

The firm relocated to Los Angeles, California.[7] There they worked on a number of commercial projects including the designing buildings for Grayson Clothing, R. H. Macy & Co., Joseph Magnin, and Milliron's.[5] Krummeck and Gruen divorced in 1951 and their firm dissolved around the same time.[8]

Krummeck career focused on planters, outdoor sculpture and street furniture in the L.A. Modernist style.[9] She had an association with the Architectural Fiberglass company that produced some of her designs.[10]

In 1958 she married the architect Herbert Neil Crawford. They divorced in 1972.[11]

Krummeck died On May 29, 1999, in Los Angeles.[2][3]

Krummeck's work was exhibited in the 1951 show Good Design at the Museum of Modern Art.[12] Her work was also included in the 1994 show Goddess in the Details--Product Design by Women at the Pratt Institute and the 1998 exhibition L.A. Modern & Beyond at the Pacific Design Center.[3]

Several of her pieces are in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art[13] and the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago.[14]

References

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  1. ^ Cronin, Jeffrey (2019). "Krummeck, Elsie Caroline (5 Dec. 1913–29 May 1999), artist and industrial designer". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.013.17920. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Elsie Krummeck". Archinform. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Oliver, Myrna (3 June 1999). "Elsie Krummeck Crawford; Artistic Industrial Designer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Reclaiming a seat at architecture's table: Elsie Krummeck". die architektin. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Dreams and Regrets". Landscape Architecture Magazine. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Gruen and Krummech". Archinform. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  7. ^ Malherek, Joseph (2022). Free-Market Socialists: European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968. Central European University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-963-386-447-0.
  8. ^ "Victor Gruen Papers [finding aid]. Manuscript Division" (PDF). Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  9. ^ "L.A. Modernism, 1919-1980" (PDF). Los Angeles City Planning. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  10. ^ "How To Unforget". Alexandra Lange. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Elsie Krummeck". Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD). Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  12. ^ "Elsie Krummeck". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Elsie Krummeck Crawford". LACMA Collections. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  14. ^ "Elsie Krummeck". Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

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