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Adler, Ruth (Schnee, Ruth Adler) [1923-. Germany/USA. Textile Designer]

 

Ruth Adler [also known as Ruth Adler Schnee] was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on 13 May 1923. As a child she showed an early interest in art which was encouraged by her mother who had studied at the Bauhaus. Following the rise of the National Socialists, the Adler family, who were Jewish, were forced to flee Germany. They emigrated to New York in 1939 and subsequently settled in Detroit, Michigan. After leaving school in 1942 Ruth Adler received a scholarship to study interior architecture at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island from where she graduated in 1945. After working for a few months in the New York office of Raymond Loewy, she returned to Michigan and attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, from where she obtained an MFA in 1946. She then worked briefly at Michigan State University where she taught design. Early in 1947 she established a silkscreen printing studio on 12th Street in Detroit. Not long after, she met and in 1948 married Edward Schnee, an economics graduate from Yale University. Together the pair formed a successful textile design company, Adler-Schnee Associates. She, responsible for the design side, and he cutting the screens and printing them. They also ran a retail outlet called ‘Adler Schnee’, in Detroit, and collaborated with other designers on commissions. These included Richard Buckminster Fuller with whom they designed the furnishing for the Ford Rotunda in Detroit (1952-53), and Minoru Yamasaki on the design of the interiors of the World Trade Center in New York City (1970-77).
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