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Louise Abel (September 7, 1894–1981) was a German-American sculptor and ceramist.

Abel was born in Widdern, Württemberg, German Empire, and in 1909 immigrated to the United States with her parents. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, as well as the Cincinnati Art Academy, the Art Students League in New York, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Barnes Foundation, the Pratt Institute, the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and the University of Cincinnati College of Liberal

Arts. From 1919 to 1932 she worked as a decorator and sculptor at the Rookwood Pottery Company, where she sculpted many of the company's animal and figural works. In 1959 she returned to Germany.

References

• German Immigrant Artists in America: A Biographical Dictionary, Peter C. Merrill, Scarecrow Press, 1997, page 1. ISBN 9780810832664.
• The Book of Rookwood Pottery, Herbert Peck, Crown Publishing Group, 1988, page 142.
• American arts & crafts from the collection of Alexandra & Sidney Sheldon, Katherine Plake Hough, Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1993, page 55.
• Women artists in the United States: a selective bibliography and resource guide on the fine and decorative arts, 1750–1986, Paula L. Chiarmonte, G.K. Hall, 1990, page 474. ISBN 9780816189175.

External links

• Media related to Louise Abel (sculptor) at Wikimedia Commons
• The Kings Fortune article
• AskArt entry
• Archive of Letters & Sketchbook by Cincinnati Artist Louise Abel (auction)

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Leaders	Maria Longworth Storer Joseph Henry Gest
Artists	Louise Abel Laura Anne Fry Albert Humphreys Clara Chipman Newton Sara Sax Mary Given Sheerer Kataro Shirayamadani Will Henry Stevens Albert Robert Valentien Anna Marie Valentien Harriet "Hattie" Elizabeth Wilcox
Related	Woodward High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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