Barbara Krohn - Ceramic Sculpture

Barbara Krohn

Born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1935, Barbara Ehrenwald Krohn came to America in 1946 with her mother and psychiatrist father after spending seven war years in England. She graduated from Smith College ten years later having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. 

She was an assistant editor at Houghton Mifflin Company for five years before founding Balsam Press, Inc., a publisher of fine illustrated books about art, architecture, and maritime history in 1983. Krohn s career is now more involved with her ceramic sculpture than with her publishing enterprise.

She has had five one-woman shows at the National Arts Club, a historic Gramercy Park building, the Caravan House Gallery on East 65th Street in New York, the Wilburt Gallery on Third Avenue and 18th Street, as well as solo shows at the Hammond Museum and Stroll Garden in North Salem and the Gallimaufry Gallery in Croton-on-Hudson. A Krohn menorah was featured on a UNICEF card in 1980, 1985, and 1986. Some of her pieces may now be seen at Hebrew Union College on West Fourth Street in New York.

Krohn passed away in 2015 from ALS, having continued her impassioned ceramics practice until just a few months prior to her death.

 

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