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Waldersbach in Alsace-Lorraine
12018-01-12T17:01:31+00:00Anne Cuyler Salsich, Oberlin College Archives65340b1e79f9df03d291b8de171f6479ab6abb1616Painting by Juliette Kromer Kessler, 1945plain2018-02-23T15:02:05+00:00Kessler, Juliette Kromer (1890-1977)194529.25" h x 39.25" woil on canvasOberlin College ArchivesPaintings, Drawings, and Framed Items (RG 40), Oberlin College ArchivesAnne Cuyler Salsich, Oberlin College Archives65340b1e79f9df03d291b8de171f6479ab6abb16
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12018-01-12T20:33:24+00:00Paintings of Oberlin's region in Alsace38plain2021-04-29T16:20:00+00:00 The painter Juliette Kromer Kessler (born Strasbourg, France, 1890-1977) came to America in 1912. She married Oberlin Professor of Music Maurice P. Kessler, and studied art at Oberlin in 1922-23. Kessler made several paintings of the Ban de la Roche, three of which are in the collections of the Oberlin College Archives.
Waldersbach in Alsace-Lorraine (above), painted by Kessler in 1945, was a gift from Harold S. Wood and the Oberlin College Class of 1923 at their 65th reunion, in 1988. This and the painting represented to the right both depict the village of Waldersbach, where Oberlin and his family lived. The third painting depicts the village of Fouday. Oberlin traveled between five villages in the foothills of the Vosges mountains to carry out his work: Waldersbach, Fouday, Belmont, Bellefosse, and Solbach.
