Viktor Schreckengost (b.1906 )

Viktor Schreckengost has been celebrated by the Cleveland Museum of Art's exhibit and catalogue “Viktor Schreckengost and Twentieth Century Design” in 2000. A truly renaissance man, he is a ceramist, painter and sculptor. He headed the Industrial Design department at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1930 and was still teaching there within the last decade. His design philosophy has been important to the automotive and toy industries most particularly, legacies continued by his students. Recently as he talks about how many objects he finds that he has had something to do with designing just between his home and the museum, one gets a close-up of his invention and impact. The Jazz Bowl, versions of which can be seen at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cowan Pottery Museum , is probably his most well known ceramic work. In addition to his sculpture on the façade of the Lakewood High School extension that won first prize in a national craft exhibit, his sculptures can be seen on bird and pachyderm buildings at the Cleveland Zoo and Cleveland Hopkins Airport. He has won many local and national awards for his work in each category and has exhibited in the Paris Expo, New York 's Metropolitan and Whitney Museum of American Art.