"Maria Kriebel" Document Box18426 1/8 x 15 x 6 3/4"Watercolor and ink on wood, with replaced haspGift of Wallace and Eleanor Weinstein2010.6.101550614475Artist unidentifiedContainersThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain. http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24596United StatesPennsylvaniaThree Dimensional WorksThe identity of the Maria Kriebel whose name is inscribed on this small document box has not been determined, but she was probably a member of the Schwenkfelder sect that settled in southeastern Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century to avoid religious persecution in Europe. The Schwenkfelders did not produce the exuberant painted furniture and interiors associated with Pennsylvania German culture. However, they created especially beautiful fraktur writings and drawings. The exquisite tulip, leaf, and swag designs painted on the exterior of this box are highly reminiscent of the colorful and skilled designs that adorn their fraktur.
Stacy C. Hollander, ""Maria Kriebel" Document Box," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.
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To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orghttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24596http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster24596http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster2459618421842 2010 6 1 The identity of the Maria Kriebel whose name is inscribed on this small document box has not been determined, but she was probably a member of the Schwenkfelder sect that settled in southeastern Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century to avoid religious persecution in Europe. The Schwenkfelders did not produce the exuberant painted furniture and interiors associated with Pennsylvania German culture. However, they created especially beautiful fraktur writings and drawings. The exquisite tulip, leaf, and swag designs painted on the exterior of this box are highly reminiscent of the colorful and skilled designs that adorn their fraktur.
Stacy C. Hollander, ""Maria Kriebel" Document Box," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org