The Podulke Family

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The Podulke's of The Americas and Netherlands.

Olga Marie "Maya" Podulke born on the 19th of August, 1896 in Lesjaskog,Oppland,Norway to father Niklas Endresen Lotten and mother Oline Olsdatter Brunsten. When Maya was thirteen, her mother died; and four years later she emigrated to the U.S. She settled in St Paul, Minnesota. (And/or Mazeppa, Minnesota.); and later made two trips back to Norway. She was twice married. she met her first husband; a professional blacksmith. Stanislaw Joseph Podulke born on the 8th of May, 1888 in Grabownica Starzeńska,Poland; to father Jendrich Joseph Podulka and mother Kataryna Pilzak. He had one brother named Pjotr. He grew up in south east Poland, close to the Ukraine border from a village called Grabownica. His brother Pjotr’s descendants still live there and his parents are in the cemetery. She married him ; and together they have five children: Sophia, Bernadine Helena, Bernard Michael, Michael Francis, and Ambrose Walter, in Mazeppa as the first Podulke family in the world.

Olga Marie

Stanislaw

Sophia

Bernard

Bernadine

Michael

Ambrose

Stanislaw died January 20, 1926; from improper ventilation in his blacksmith shop. leaving her with their three young children (that survived to adulthood). She struggled to take care of her family during the crisis in 1929. The 1930 Census lists Olga Marie as age 33 and children Bernadine (age 9) Michael (age 7) and Ambrose (age 6) at the household in Mazeppa, Minnesotathat was lost due to the actions of the banker who stole her monthly payments and had fled to Canada; taking all the savings from the village people, and the catholic church didnt pay back a loan that Stanislaw had loaned them. It appears that her second husband had the name Henry Burton. Olga died on the 18th of March, 1971.

Bernadine Helena had three sons and two daughters with Paul Carl Plasencia between 1942 and 1960. thus starting the Plasencia clan She died on December 25, 2012 she was the mother of Steve Plasencia a former American long-distance runner. Plasencia competed in the 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics. In the closest 1-2 finish in the race's history, Plasencia edged out Keith Brantly by one second to win the 1992 California International Marathon (2:14:14). His 14:02.86 5000 metres at the Drake Relays at the age of 40 was the American Masters record until 2014 when it was broken by Bernard Lagat. and He is the head cross-country and track and field coach at the University of Minnesota.where he has won three Indoor Big Ten Track and Field Championships (2009, 2010, 2011) and two Outdoor Big Ten Track and Field Championships (2009, 2010) .

Bernadine

Paul

Ruth

Mary

Gregory

Steven

Douglas

Megan

Matthew

Ryan

Alex

Johnathon

Suzie

Michael Francis Podulke, was an American painter and graphic artist, who worked in his last years, especially in East Frisia. Podulke graduated from high school and became a paratrooper during the Second World War from January 1, 1943 to January 26, 1946. He served in the Pacific as a soldier in the Philippines . Here he was exposed to great hardships, He survived 47 days alone in the jungle. The American army dismissed him highly decorated. Michael Fraancis studied from 1946 to 1948 and from 1949 to 1950 at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota . He mainly took courses in art history and art education.

He had Stephen with Margaret, thus starting the Lake City clan.

Margaret

Michael Francis

Stephen

Christine

Mark

Catherine

Matthew

Jacqueline

Cody

Emily

Avery

Ethan

He Had Michael Joseph (Mike) and Peter with Elizabeth, thus starting the Rochester & St. Paul clans.

-Mike served in the U.S. Navy from 1961 to 1964. He was trained in electronics and radar detection and served in the underwater radar detection unit. He lived in New Hampshire for three years, moved to Italy for two years, and then the Netherlands for two years where His Daughter Heather was born. He worked with and studied stained glass there. In 1976, he and his wife Sephanie moved to Rochester and opened Rochester Stained Glass. Mike ran for and was elected to be a county commissioner in 1986 and subsequently was re-elected to that position six times. On the county board, he was known as a strong advocate for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and citizens. Mike and Stephanie had a vision of how to help the community heal from the raw emotions of 9/11. They translated that into a design and a community project for a beautiful set of stained glass panels in memory of the victims of 9/11. The labor involved in building it included over 500 volunteers from the Rochester area. Mike and Stephanie's stained glass creations are installed in numerous Rochester and Byron churches. Mike was a member of Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Fraternity. Among the many honors he received were: Committee on Urban Design and Environment; Rochester Convention and Visitors Bureau Hometown Hero Award, Mayor's Award for Community Service, Cambodian American Friendship Award, Zumbro Valley Medical Society Public Service Award and the Mayor's Legacy Award. Some of his friends referred to him as rustic philosopher, He also served as a consultant on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” when his daughter Laurel was a contestant on Episode 274 (May 18, 2001) - Couples Edition (4)

Laurel Podulke-Smith is a 2005 graduate of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles (ATI-LA) where she completed her three-year, 1600 hour training. Laurel also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities). She currently leads the Alexander Technique program at Mayo Clinic's Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center (DAHLC).

Alex the son of Peter is an American Broadway Actor (1998 to 1999 season) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Julius Caesar," at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, Minnesota with Sally Wingert and Lance Reddick in the cast. Joe Dowling was director and artistic director. Michael Yeargan was set designer. Paul Tazewell was costume designer. Chris Parry was lighting designer. Keith Thomas was composer. (2001 to 2002 season) He acted in Lee Blessing,'s play, "Thief River," in a Tyrone Guthrie Theater production at the Guthrie Lab Theater, Warehouse district, Minneapolis, Minnesota with Bard Goodrich and James Shanklin in the cast. Ethan McSweeny was director. Michael Sims was set designer. Rich Hamson was costume designer. Jane Cox was lighting designer. (2003 to 2004 season) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Romeo and Juliet," at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, Minnesota with Patch Darragh in the cast. Ethen McSweeney was director. Mark Wendland was set and costume designer. Jane Cox was lighting designer. Rick Sordelet was fight director.

Elizabeth

Michael Francis

Mike

Peter

Dan

Heather

Laurel

LeAnn

Ainslie

Nedjo

Alex

Ursula

Jon

Katie

Clare

Thaddeus

Eliah

He had His son Erik Michael born on January 4, 1948.

Marie

Michael Francis

Erik Michael

At the end of 1950 he went to Europe and settled in Amsterdam . He continued his studies of art history here since August 1952 at the University of Amsterdam. He took lessons from Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka . He had His daughter Nancy Annette born on March 15, 1952.

Alyce

Michael Francis

Nancy Annette

He had Stanislau(Stasz) and Olga with Eugenie, thus starting the Dutch clan. Stanislaus March 25th 1959 - February 16th 1983. Was on the Island school’s schoolteam, Hong Kong national rugby team but died in his 20's.

Eugenie

Michael Francis

Stanislau

Olga

Vivienne

Eugenie

Lucje

Alexandra

Irene

Bennet

In 1963 Michael Podulke was a member of the working committee with the founding of the Internationaal Kunsthuis . The Kunsthuis was created from a suggestion of Dr. med. Louis Gans, former conservator of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The Kunsthuis should promote contemporary art and open up a larger market for it. On 1 January 1965 Podulke resigned from the Internationaal Kunsthuis. The association could not realize their ideas and dissolved later.

Michael Podulke was looking for new fields of activity and participated in the middle of the sixties at Galerie Mokum in Amsterdam, founded in 1962 , owned by the gallery owner Dieuwke Bakker. He was involved in the management of the gallery until mid-1969, showed the only figurative Dutch art. The gallery presented various forms of realism, such as New Realism , Naive Realism and Magic Realism, The artists represented by the Galerie Mokum were Ferdinand Erfmann, Sal Meijer, Teunn and Cornelis Doolaard. Later followed Dick Pieters, Wout Muller, Clary Mastenbroek, Jasper van Putten, Kik Zeiler. The gallery Mokum wanted to consciously counterbalance the established museums and galleries that, in keeping with contemporary tastes , emphasized abstract art . Later, Michael Podulke founded his own gallery. Galerie Podulke organized exhibitions from October 1969 to June 1970.

In 1975, Michael Francis moved to the north (East Frisia), because he dealt intensively with nature in his work. He lived and worked in his studio there until his death in 1988. In Ostfriesland he got to know and love the painter and graphic artist Hildegard Peters . Both lived together in the north and on the island of Norderney . His works have been presented at numerous exhibitions, especially in the East Frisian region. In his works he dealt with the landscape of East Frisia, but also with local political topics. From 1983 Podulke turned artistically with a series of collages against the creation of a Heinrich Heine sculpture of the National Socialist state sculptor Arno Breker on the East Frisian island of Norderney.

There were a total of about 660 works (179 oil paintings, 15 different editions in gravure, 13 lithographs, 287 woodcuts, including 13 editions). There is now a catalog raisonné about his oeuvre .

Operation Michael Francis worked mainly in the technique of woodcut . Only at the beginning of his artistic work were gravures and lithographs created . In the early woodcuts, he copied sticks into which he either cut a complete representation or sticks into which he incorporated parts of a complete representation (usually divided into strokes and tone plates). In the late woodcuts he used self-dyed Japanese paperon which he printed different or same motifs. Michael Podulke used in his late work increasingly collage techniques. Partly he stuck small shreds of dyed Japanese paper on, often in connection with complete, previously printed motifs. Striking is in Podulke his strong coloring.

Thematically, Michael dealt almost exclusively with nature ( still lifes , floral arrangements, landscape depictions). His motives were mainly animals (fantastically looking lizards, snakes and fish) and flowers. The pictorial worlds used were predominantly sea and shore landscapes. These pictorial worlds were often romantically and temporarily implemented with surrealistic echoes.

Michael was always representational, even in the works in which he put together natural elements. Podulke did not join any group of artists that shaped a particular style. The most acclaimed solo exhibition was in 1962 at the Groninger Museum , in which Prof. dr. HLC Jaff, (then professor of art history at the University of Amsterdam and well-known interpreter of De Stijl and Piet Mondrian ) and that of Jos de Gruyter (* Aug. 28, 1899, † July 30, 1979) (museum director in Groningen from 1955 until 1963 and art critic) was opened. This exhibition then went to the Gemeent Museum Schiedam and Cultureel Centrum de Beyerd, Breda.

Michael Francis Work in public collections

-Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

-Prentenkabinet, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)

-Groninger Museum for Stad en Lande (Groningen)

-Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

-Tate Gallery (London)

-Brooklyn Museum (New York)

-Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York)

-Chicago Art Museum (Chicago)

-San Francisco City Museum (San Francisco)

-Kunsthaus Zurich (Zurich)

Michael Francis in Literature

-Catalog of works "Michael Francis Podulke" with source appendix, created by Hilke Hothan, Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich. 2018 release planned.

-Hilke Hothan: Michael Francis PODULKE. Online entry in the Biographical Encyclopedia for Ostfriesland , 1993, on the homepage of the Ostfriesische Landschaft .

-Illustrations (woodcut): Cecilia Meireles, PoÜmes, trad. M, lot du Dy, ill. Mike Podulke, Erospress La Haye 1953

-Adrianus Roland Holst, De secret Zee, Illustrator M. Podulke, printer J. Meijer, o. O. 1974

-Michael Podulke, oOuJ (NV Dijkstra's Drukkerij) (catalog of the solo exhibition in Groningen, Schiedam, Breda, 1962)

-W. Jos. de Gruyter, Michael Podulke, in: Beeld en Interpretatie, The Hague 1964, pp. 96-101

-Henk Romijn Meijer, Lieve Zuster Ursula, Amsterdam 1969 (a key novel in which Michael Podulke, in addition to other people in the Amsterdam art scene, was the inspiration for the artist described)

-Michael Podulke, Hildegard Peters (Bearb.), Heine and the North Sea, North (circa 1985) (exhibition catalog)

-Brigitte Kühling-Sandhaus (ed.), Painter town Schwalenberg 1987, Schieder-Schwalenberg

-Heiko Jörn: wood prints by Michael Francis Podulke, o. J., Leer

Ambrose Walter was a paratrooper during the Second World War.Like his Brother Michael Francis The American army also dismissed him highly decorated He married married Lorna Jean Ketcham They had one child together Terry Stanley Podulke Sr. thus starting the East St Paul Podulke clan. He died on August 12, 1986.

Lorna Jean

Ambrose Walter

Jean Marie

Terry Sr

Terry Jr

Wendy Gayle

Bill Sr

Kyros

Harley

Samuel

Alec

Brittany

Bill Jr

Destiny

Harley Jr

Zoey

Myla Grace

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