Walter Farmer
Walter Farmer (1911–1997) was a captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He drafted the Wiesbaden manifesto, which resulted in the return of much of the artworks the US Army collected during World War II to their countries of origin.
Walter Farmer
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- Born
- 1911 · Alliance.
- Died
- 1997 · Cincinnati.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- architect · genealogist · art collector · art historian
- Education
- Miami University
- Honours
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Walter Farmer (1911–1997) was a captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He drafted the Wiesbaden manifesto, which resulted in the return of much of the artworks the US Army collected during World War II to their countries of origin.
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Walter Farmer was born in Alliance, Ohio, and received a bachelor's degrees in mathematics and architecture from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He went on to be active as a genealogist and was prominent in the museum field in Ohio and Texas. His marriages to both Josselyn Liszniewska and to Renate Hobirk ended in divorce. Farmer died of cancer on 11 August 1997 at the age of 86 at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. He had a daughter, Margaret Farmer Planton; two grandsons; and a sister, Evelyn Krickbaum.
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1911
Walter Farmer born at Alliance.
1997
Walter Farmer died at Cincinnati.
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As part of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, Farmer was put in charge of the Wiesbaden art collection point at the end of World War II. The collection points were Allied locations where artwork and cultural artifacts that the Nazi regime had confiscated and hidden throughout Germany and Austria were processed, photographed, and redistributed. In 1996, the German government honored Farmer with the crimson Commander's Cross of the Federal Order of Merit.
Hörstation mit einer Kurbel zum Drehen, einer aufgedruckten Erläuterung und einem QR-Code zu Bedeutung des amerikanischen Architekten, Designers und Offiziers der United States Army WalterFarmer, aufgestellt am Museum Wiesbaden (Hessisches Landesmuseum für die Sparten Kunst und Natur)...
Bernd Schwabe in Hannover
Hörstation mit einer Kurbel zum Drehen, einer aufgedruckten Erläuterung und einem QR-Code zu Bedeutung des amerikanischen Architekten, Designers und Offiziers der United States Army WalterFarmer, aufgestellt am Museum Wiesbaden (Hessisches Landesmuseum für die Sparten Kunst und Natur)...
Bernd Schwabe in Hannover
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