Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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Peter Mansbendel, Swiss Woodcarver
Abstract
Peter Mansbendel was born in Basel in 1883 and came to the United States in his early twenties. In New York he met a well-to-do Texan beauty. They married and eventually settled in Austin, Texas. From 1915 to his death, in 1940, Mansbendel pursued his calling of woodcarver by doing pieces of furniture, fireplace mantels, portrait plaques and busts and other kinds of decorative works for individual patrons and institutions such as the University of Texas.
Recommended Citation
Meier, Heinz K.
(1978)
"The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures,"
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 14:
Iss.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol14/iss2/6
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