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Did you know Albert Wein worked as an Art Director for the Ernie Kovacs Show?

1961-1962 The Ernie Kovacs Show (TV series) – Episode dated 23 January 1962 (1962) (as Al Wein) – Episode dated 24 November 1961 (1961) (as Al Wein) – Episode dated 21 September 1961 (1961) (as Al Wein) 1960 Take a Good Look (TV series) – Episode dated 22 December … Continue reading

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Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary: Garden of Memories

Known throughout history as the People of the Book, Jews attach great mystical significance to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Towering above a fountain in the Court of Faith in the Garden of Memories is an Albert Wein sculpture … Continue reading

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Rocky Mountain News Article

Dated April 21, 1969 Just found this image in an article from the Rocky Mountain News about art work at the University of Wyoming.  While Albert was a professor there in 1967,  he created a set of four panels to … Continue reading

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Palm Springs Desert Museum

Sensuality, dignity, sincerity and validity are all hallmarks of the work of Albert Wein.  He is primarily known as a sculptor, but at the same time, he has demonstrated tremendous capability as a painter. -Frederick W. Sleight, Director Palms Springs … Continue reading

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Palm Springs Desert Museum Retrospective

It becomes apparent when viewing a retrospective collection of Wein’s work that he has always been under the strong influence of organic shapes and forms. He first began with the human figure and in more recent times has been involved … Continue reading

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Palm Springs Desert Museum Retrospective Show

Moore, Brancusi and Arp have all been admired by Wein, for each artist found beauty in the world around him in natural shapes, masses and designs.  The significant result of Wein’s work, therefore, could be likened unto the capturing of … Continue reading

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Albert’s Wife

The artist’s wife, Deyna Wein, when asked for her impressions and characterizations of her husband’s work, felt that his message was involved with the joy of living and the nobility of man.  Further, she says, his work has an uplifting, … Continue reading

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‘Great Art Needs Search of Soul’ – Albert Wein

excerpt from The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA  November 6, 1968 by Helen Wilson Michelangelo, the great sculptor, standing before a gleaming block of white marble was known to say, “Within you lies ugliness and beauty; what comes out depends … Continue reading

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Wein’s World

By Chris Bergeron/Daily News staff www.metrowestdailynews.com GHS Posted Oct 12,  2008 @ 02:00 PM  BOSTON — Albert Wein created some of the most heroic and sensual sculptures you’ve probably never seen. But if you saw his frankly erotic nude “Phryne Before … Continue reading

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Albert Wein

Review from www.WeeklyDig.com Sept 2008 By COLIN ASHER Four horsemen, wretched and desiccated, cloaked and flying blindly, gallop out of the eye of a bronze cylinder in the shape of a mushroom cloud. They represent the biblical horsemen of the … Continue reading

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