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Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
701 Beach Lane,
Manhattan, KS 66506
(14th & Anderson Ave.)

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Margo Kren, Untitled (portrait of George M. Kren), late 20th century, gelatin silver print, 9 1…
George M. Kren
Margo Kren, Untitled (portrait of George M. Kren), late 20th century, gelatin silver print, 9 1…
Margo Kren, Untitled (portrait of George M. Kren), late 20th century, gelatin silver print, 9 11/16 x 7 9/16 in., Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of the artist, 2000.210

George M. Kren

United States, born Austria, 1926 - 2000
Place of BirthLinz, Austria, Europe
Place of DeathManhattan, Kansas, United States, North America
BiographyKren was a professor of European intellectual history at Kansas State University. A dedicated photographer, he enjoyed capturing friends and associates with his lens. Many of his portraits show regional artists with whom he became acquainted through his wife, Margo Kren, K-State professor emeritus of art. Many of these artist-photographs appear in Margo Kren’s A Gathering in the Arts: Midwesterners Photographed by George M. Kren.