Adolf Wolff

Adolf Wolff
Adolf Wolff
Born	March 1883 (1883-03); Brussels
Died	1944 (aged 60–61)

Adolf Wolff (1883–1944) was a visual artist, poet, anarchist, and socialist based in New York City, active between 1912 and 1920. He attended school such as National Academy of Design in New York and the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels.¹ He taught at the Ferrer School and contributed to The Modern School, the magazine published by the Ferrer Association.¹ Wolff exhibited his vanguard sculpture regularly in NYC, and was active in anarchist and socialist activities of the day.¹ In September 1914, he was arrested and imprisoned on Blackwell Island for thirty days.¹

References

Naumann, Francis M. (September 1985). "Adolf Wolff: 'Poet, Sculptor and Revolutionist, but Mostly Revolutionist". The Art Bulletin. 67 (3): 486–500. JSTOR 3050963. Retrieved March 31, 2025.

Antliff, Allan (1998). "Cosmic Modernism: Elie Nadelman, Adolf Wolff, and the Materialist Aesthetics of John Weichsel". Archives of American Art Journal. 38 (3/4): 20–29. doi:10.1086/aaa.38.3_4.1557779. ISSN 0003-9853. JSTOR 1557779. S2CID 193374827.
Antliff, Allan (2007). Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-02104-1.
Avrich, Paul (1995). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-03412-6. OCLC 68772773.
Churchill, Suzanne Wintsch (2006). The Little Magazine Others and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-5332-5.
Naumann, Francis M.; Avrich, Paul (September 1985). "Adolf Wolff: 'Poet, Sculptor and Revolutionist, but Mostly Revolutionist'". The Art Bulletin. 67 (3): 486–500. doi:10.1080/00043079.1985.10788284. ISSN 0004-3079.

[:0-1] Naumann, Francis M. (September 1985). "Adolf Wolff: 'Poet, Sculptor and Revolutionist, but Mostly Revolutionist". The Art Bulletin. 67 (3): 486–500. JSTOR 3050963. Retrieved March 31, 2025.

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