Dan
Emil Wiesendanger (June 5, 1915 - July 14, 1996) was an American artist.Queer Places:
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Dan
Emil Wiesendanger (June 5, 1915 - July 14, 1996) was an American artist.
Dan Wiesendanger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 5, 1915. He served in the U.S. Army from June 1941 until December 1945, for the majority of the time as non-commissioned officer in charge of Special Services Section, Athletics and Entertainment, in the headquarters offices of various regiments, divisions, and corps. He later settled in Los Angeles, where for many years he lived with his roommate Clint at 3279 Descanso Drive. He was a modernist painter, working in a variety of media. He is credited with developing geometric abstraction in the late 1960s. He was also a songwriter and member of ASCAP.
He died in a Los Angeles nursing home on July 14, 1996, of prostate cancer.
His papers are held at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives and consist of diaries kept by Dan Wiesendanger from 1976 until mid-1995, documenting the events in his life, his friends, and family, including reminiscences of his earlier life. A separate series of diaries documents Wiesendanger's work as an artist and his activities within the artists' communities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
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