RUOCCOILSE

Interview with Ilse Ruocco, 1980

 

December 1, 1980

 

Interviewer: Price, Margaret

Ilse Hamann Ruocco was born in Spandau, Germany, but spent most of her life in San Diego. She studied art at the University of California at Los Angeles and Columbia University, and joined the San Diego State Teacher's College faculty in 1934, teaching painting, ceramic arts, and industrial arts. Ruocco was considered an expert in interior design and textile design, and taught at SDSU for a total of 33 years, becoming a Professor Emeritus of Art. She was also the wife of Lloyd Ruocco, the celebrated architect known for designing buildings such as the Design Center on 5th Street, the Geophysics Building at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the San Diego Civic Theatre. Ilse Ruocco died in 1982. She was interviewed at the home of Lloyd Anthony Ruocco on her 80th birthday. In this interview, Ruocco discusses her involvement with the Allied Artists and Allied Craftsmen councils, her life with Lloyd Ruocco, her education, her career as professor, and her involvement with other artists and craftsmen.

Russell Forester; Lloyd Ruocco; Bauhaus; Ilse Hedwig Hamann Ruocco; Allied Artists; Allied Craftsmen; San Diego State Teacher's College; William "Bill" Copley; Man Ray; Charles Eames; Margaret Price; Interviews; Oral histories; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Rafael Soriano

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English

 

Audiotape

01:01:30

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Audio

MP3

74.71 MB