Dan Wiesendanger
(June 5, 1915 - July 14, 1996) USA
Painter
Dan Wiesendanger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served in the U.S. Army from June 1941 until December 1945, for the majority of the time as non-commissioned officer in charge of Special Services Section, Athletics and Entertainment, in the headquarters offices of various regiments, divisions, and corps.
He later settled in Los Angeles, where for many years he lived with his roommate Clint at 3279 Descanso Drive.
He was a modernist painter, working in a variety of media. He is credited with developing geometric abstraction in the late 1960s.
He was also a songwriter and member of ASCAP.
He died in a Los Angeles nursing home, of prostate cancer. He was 81.
His diaries are owned by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Source: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
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