T. F. Gustave Von Groschwitz (April 16, 1906 – 1991) was an American art administrator who served as director of the

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and associate director of the

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Biography

Von Groschwitz was born on April 16, 1906, in

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. He received his B.A. from

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in 1927 and his M.A. from the

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in 1949 with a thesis titled "The Original Lithograph in Color in the XIXth Century." During the

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, he served as the head of the graphics art division of the

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in New York City. He was appointed curator of prints at

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in 1938, and curator of prints of Cincinnati Art Museum in 1947, concurrently serving as an adjunct faculty member of the

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. He was made chief curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum and organized six international biennales of lithography. From 1963 to 1968, he was the director of the

, and organized the 1964 and 1967

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. In 1968, he joined the faculty of the

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, where he was associate director of the

, before retiring in 1974. Von Groschwitz died in 1991.

References

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