FIT Talks: Albert Kresch Interview

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FIT Talks: Albert Kresch Interview
Contributor Names
Kresch, Albert, 1922-2022
Cannell Trivette, Karen (Interviewer)
Date
2018-12-05
Date Digitized
2020
Description
Albert Kresch was a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) from 1951 to 1986, one of the longest professorial tenures in FIT's history. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the Great Depression forced his family to move to New York when he was around 8 or 9 so his father could find better work opportunities. He became interested in the fine arts while attending Seward Park High School, and studied for a short time with Hans Hoffman before being drafted into the Air Corps in WW2. He was hired to teach art classes at FIT by Frank Shapiro in 1951, and taught until his retirement in 1986.
In this interview, Mr. Kresch recalls his 95 years of life, including his childhood in Brooklyn, what inspired him to get interested in art, his student relationship with the artist Hans Hofmann, his time in the air corps during WW2, and his time at FIT, Parsons, and Pratt working as an art professor.
Type
Moving Image
Oral histories
Subject
Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)
Kresch, Albert, 1922-2022
Education
Arts
Drawing
Painting
New York (State)--New York
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This video was produced by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and is the property of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of this video, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. This video has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in this video and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
Identifier
FIT Repository ID: aod_000611
SPARC reference code: US.NNFIT.SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.10.22

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Series

FIT Talks oral history series, 2014-

Categories

FIT Faculty and Staff Work

Citation

Fashion Institute of Technology. (2018, December 5). FIT Talks: Albert Kresch Interview [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/136279
Fashion Institute of Technology. "FIT Talks: Albert Kresch Interview." Archive on Demand, 5 Dec. 2018, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/136279
Fashion Institute of Technology, "FIT Talks: Albert Kresch Interview," Archive on Demand, December 5, 2018, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/136279