biography of Ernst HALBERSTADT (1910-1987)

Birth place: Budingen, Germany

Addresses: Cambridge, MA (1947); Onset, MA (1973)

Profession: Painter, sculptor, mural painter, designer, photographer

Exhibited: Krashaur Gal., NYC, 1946 (solo); Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1949; Photography Fine Arts III & IV, 1962-1963; Art Across Am. New England Regional Competition, 1965; Norfolk Bi-Ann. Am. Drawings, 1969; Univ. New Hampshire, 1970 (photography solo); Traveling Show, DVA Assocs., FL, 1972 (photography solo); Kendall Art Gal., Wellfleet, MA, 1970s. Awards: purchase awards, U.S. Govt., 1941; Pepsi Cola Corp. New England Area fellowship in painting, 1946; medals, Art Dirs. Club, Boston, 1956-57.

Work: MMA; MoMA; New Britain (CT) Mus.; Fogg Mus., Harvard College, Cambridge, MA; Addison Gallery Am. Art, Andover, MA. Commissions: WPA murals at USPO, Chicopee Falls, MA; U.S. Coast Artillery Bd., Virginia Fortress Monroe, 1937; Rockingham Park, Salem, NH, 1960; Irving Trust Co., New York, 1965; sculptures, Irving Trust Co., 1967 & 1972.

Comments: Positions: dir., New England Artists Equity Assn., 1949-52. Illustrator: I Heard Them Sing, 1946; Shore Road to Ogunquit, 1969. Teaching: head dept. murals, BMFA School, 1947-51.

Sources: WW73; WW47; H. Devree, Newcomber," New York Times,March, 1946; T. Lyon, "E.H., Double Vision ó Photographer-Painter," Prof. Photographer (May, 1950); P.S. Hurd, "E. Halberstadt ó Expectancy," Christian Science Monitor, Dec., 1968."