Frederick Monhoff
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Frederick Monhoff | |
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| Born | November 23, 1897 New York City, NY, USA |
| Died | October 11, 1975 (aged 77) Calistoga, CA, USA |
| Spouse | June Hildegarde Flanner (1926-) |
Frederick Monhoff, AIA, (November 23, 1897 – October 11, 1975) was an American architect, artist, and illustrator. His architectural style ranged from art deco to mid-century modern, while his etchings of the 1920s-30s documented scenes of Native American and Mexican life in the American Southwest.[1]
Frederick Monhoff was born in New York City to Emil Monhoff (1865-1922) and Maria Therese Kremer Monhoff (1864-1951).[2] As a boy, Monhoff moved to Los Angeles with his family. He served in the United States Navy during World War I and later attended the University of California, Berkeley where he received an M.A. in 1921.[3] At Berkeley, Monhoff served on the staff of the school's literary journal The Occident.[4]
On June 29, 1926, Monhoff married June Hildegarde Flanner and they settled in Altadena, California.[2] Monhoff illustrated several of Flanner's books of poetry and essays with his drawings and etchings. The couple had one child, John, born March 15, 1941. Hildegarde's sister was Janet Flanner, a long time Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, (writing under the pen name Genet). In 1962, Monhoff and his family moved north to Calistoga, California, in the Napa Valley and he died there in 1975.