A. T. Bondy: Difference between revisions
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== Artistic career == | == Artistic career == | ||
Bondy was employed full-time in the Scriptorium Studio in Chicago, Illinois. | Bondy was employed full-time in the Scriptorium Studio in Chicago, Illinois. For a time, he was associated with the Moulton & Ricketts Art Galleries (which were located in New York and, after 1913, in Chicago, and Milwaukee). | ||
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He was considered one of the finest Engrosser/Illuminators in the world. During his career he was offered commissions presented to Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Haile Selassie, Pope Pius XII and numerous other world dignitaries and politicians.<ref>Gerald Moscato, "Remembering The Past: A Profile of Andreas Theodore Bondy" website or blog posting. Date and URL unknown. ca. 2005-2006.</ref> | He was considered one of the finest Engrosser/Illuminators in the world. During his career he was offered commissions presented to Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Haile Selassie, Pope Pius XII and numerous other world dignitaries and politicians.<ref>Gerald Moscato, "Remembering The Past: A Profile of Andreas Theodore Bondy" website or blog posting. Date and URL unknown. ca. 2005-2006.</ref> | ||
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[[File:Bondy_Three_Objects.jpg|right|200px|thumb|''The Three Objects'']] | [[File:Bondy_Three_Objects.jpg|right|200px|thumb|''The Three Objects'']] | ||
== Involvement with Theosophical Society == | == Involvement with Theosophical Society == | ||
Revision as of 14:16, 20 February 2023
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Andreas Theodore Bondy was an American Theosophist and expert calligrapher. He typically signed his work "A. Theo. Bondy."
Personal life
Andreas Theodore Bondy ....
He died on August 7, 1966.
Artistic career
Bondy was employed full-time in the Scriptorium Studio in Chicago, Illinois. For a time, he was associated with the Moulton & Ricketts Art Galleries (which were located in New York and, after 1913, in Chicago, and Milwaukee).
He was considered one of the finest Engrosser/Illuminators in the world. During his career he was offered commissions presented to Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Haile Selassie, Pope Pius XII and numerous other world dignitaries and politicians.[1]
Involvement with Theosophical Society
Co-founder of the Chicago Fellowship Branch chartered on Sept 10, 1939.
In July 1943, Bondy completed his greatest work for the Theosophical Society – The Three Objects. He had labored on it for five years.
The Society celebrated the fifty years of service of Marie Poutz at its sixty-first annual convention, and members voted to
Notes
- ↑ Gerald Moscato, "Remembering The Past: A Profile of Andreas Theodore Bondy" website or blog posting. Date and URL unknown. ca. 2005-2006.
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