Lore Kadden Lindenfeld

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (April 27, 1921 – April 8, 2010) was a German-American textile designer. She taught visual arts at Middlesex County College. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally.

Life and education

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld was born in Wuppertal, Germany, to parents Frieda and Alfred Kadden. She attended school at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where she studied fashion design; however, she was shortly forced to flee to the Netherlands due to Nazi rule. A year later, her family moved to the United States where she began a living as a seamstress and salesperson. Lore took classes at Harvard and attended the Institute for Social Progress at Wellesley College as well.

From 1945 to 1948 she attended Black Mountain College, graduating with a degree in Weaving and Textile Design. She worked with artists such as Anni Albers during her time there.

She earned a master's degree in Creative Arts Education from Rutgers University in 1982. She then became a designer for Kanmak Textiles. Lore soon devoted her time raising her two children and as an independent weaver, creating pieces that represented her founded knowledge of patterns, colors, and designs. She started the weaving department and was a faculty member in the Visual Arts department at Middlesex County College from 1968 to 1986 and taught weaving at the Princeton Adult School for many years.

Artistic significance

Lore focused primarily on weaving and fiber designs, using plastic raffia and wool fibers or ribbons. She died in 2010. Triptych. 1982, wool, nylon, netting, plastic raffia Sado Island. 1991, polyester, Japanese paper, netting, yarn stitching and drawing Sado Island, Remembered Images. 1994, polyester, Japanese paper, netting, ink stitching, and drawing Patterns of Growth. 1998 Transparent Forest. 1999

Solo exhibitions

Lore Lindenfeld, A Journey in Fiberarts, Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ, 1999 Lore Kadden Lindenfeld: A Life in Textiles, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina, 1997 Fibergraphics: Remembered Images, Newark Museum of Art, 1993 Fiber Collage, Bargeron Gallery, Washington Crossing, PA, 1990 Places, Spaces, and Seasons, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, 1988 Perception in Fiber, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 1984 Woven Tapestries, Walters Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and Henry Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, NJ, 1982 American Craft Gallery (later Hadler Gallery), New York, NY (with Marion Levinston), 1974 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (with Marion Levinston), 1973