Marguerite: From the Bauhaus to Pond Farm

Trained at the famed Bauhaus art school in Germany, Marguerite Wildenhain was one of Europe’s most talented ceramicists. During World War II, she fled to America and started a new life with exiled Jewish artists at an isolated ranch in northern California, Pond Farm. This documentary follows her extraordinary story as a refugee and shows how a generation of artists journeyed to Guerneville to learn from the esteemed master potter.

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