imported>GoingBatty: Fixed WP:ORDER and other General fixes

2025-03-18T02:04:43Z

New page

{{short description|American woodcarver}}
{{multiple issues|
{{BLP sources|date=May 2012}}
{{promotional|date=July 2012}}
}}
[[File:Marv at home.jpg|thumb|Kaisersatt at home in 2022]]
[[File:Sherlock Gotya.jpg|thumb|Sherlock Gotya]]
'''Marvin Robert Kaisersatt''' (born 1 February 1939) is an American [[woodcarver]]. He was born in [[Montgomery, Minnesota]] to Bessie and Benjamin Kaisersatt.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marvin Kaisersatt in the 1940 Census {{!}} Ancestry® |url=https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Minnesota/Marvin-Kaisersatt_3flvdp |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Ancestry.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
{{BLP sources|date=January 2024}}

Kaisersatt attended high school in Montgomery, MN and graduated from [[St. John's University, Minnesota|St. John's University]] in [[Collegeville, Minnesota|Collegeville, MN]] with a degree in Mathematics. He then joined the US Army and spent time overseas before leaving the military to teach math at ''Escuela San Antonio Abad'' in Humaca, [[Puerto Rico]]. He then moved to [[Monticello, Minnesota|Monticello, MN]], where he continued to teach before moving to Faribault in 1976, where he taught math until his retirement in 1995.
[[File:Unexpected turn of events.jpg|thumb|Unexpected Turn of Events]]
Kaisersatt began [[wood carving]] seriously in 1976 during a teacher's strike. A caricature carver, he specializes in carving multi-figure scenes from a single block of [[Tilia|basswood]]. The carvings are finished with sealer but not varnished and presented either without color or with a hand-painted watercolor finish and then waxed.

Kaisersatt has taught classes (held through Whillock Studios and CCA) focusing on design, clay modeling, and carving technique. He is a founding member of the [[Caricature Carvers of America]],<ref name="cca-carvers_org">{{Cite web |title=Caricature Carvers of America: Bios: Marv Kaisersatt |url=https://www.cca-carvers.org/bio-pages/kaisersatt.html |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=www.cca-carvers.org}}</ref> dedicated to promoting caricature carving. His favorite caricaturist is [[Al Hirschfeld]]. Cartooning and caricatures are prominent in Kaisersatt's designs and story lines. His book, ''Creating Caricature Heads in Wood and on Paper'', explains carving caricature heads and describes a detailed design procedure.<ref name="cca-carvers_org" /> Kaisersatt has also authored multiple teaching articles published in Woodcarver's Magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-25 |title=Creating a Simple Armature |url=https://woodcarvingillustrated.com/blog/2017/10/25/creating-a-simple-armature/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Woodcarving Illustrated |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-20 |title=The Design Process |url=https://woodcarvingillustrated.com/blog/2017/10/20/the-design-process/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Woodcarving Illustrated |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Awards==
{{BLP sources|date=January 2024}}
Kaisersatt's awards include honors from the International Woodcarvers Congress in [[Davenport, Iowa]], where he has won “Best of Caricatures” in 9 consecutive years, the Upper Midwest Woodcarvers Expo in [[Blue Earth, Minnesota]] and the [[Nordic Fest]] Woodcarving Exhibition in Decorah, Iowa.
He was chosen as ''Wood Carving Illustrated'' magazine's wood carver of the Year in 2006, and Kaisersatt was featured in the Fall 2007 edition of ''Woodcarver's Magazine''.

*1991 - Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum, Decora, IA, Gold Medal Award <ref name="collections_vesterheim_org">{{Cite web |last=vesterheim2 |date=2019-05-14 |title=Kaisersatt, Marvin |url=https://collections.vesterheim.org/gold_medalist/kaisersatt-marvin/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Vesterheim Norwegian-American |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=vesterheim2 |date=2019-04-09 |title=Gold Medalist Portfolio |url=https://collections.vesterheim.org/gold-medalist-portfolios/page/3/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Vesterheim Norwegian-American |language=en-US}}</ref>
*1995 - Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum, Decora, IA, People’s Choice Award <ref name="collections_vesterheim_org" />
*2006 - Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine, Woodcarver of the Year<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-10-06 |title=Marvin Kaiseratt is the 2006 Woodcarver of the Year |url=https://woodcarvingillustrated.com/blog/2016/10/06/marvin-kaiseratt-2006-woodcarver-year/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Woodcarving Illustrated |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaisersatt, Marv}}
[[Category:American woodcarvers]]
[[Category:People from Le Sueur County, Minnesota]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1939 births]]
[[Category:People from Faribault, Minnesota]]

Marv Kaisersatt - Revision history

imported>GoingBatty: Fixed WP:ORDER and other General fixes