(1910-1998)
Austin Blanck is a Western New York artist, specializing in industrial design, mainly creating fabric and wallpaper designs. During the 1930s, he studied charcoal drawing at the Albright Art School and also studied Principles of Advertising and History of Architecture at the University of Buffalo. He attended The New York School of Fine and Applied Art (Parsons) from 1931-1933 and was awarded the Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt scholarship. He was also the Grand Prize winner of the 1932 Buffalo Centennial Committee poster contest. He started his career in New York City at the Scott Wilson studio creating middle and high-styled wallpaper and fabric designs. During World War II, he came to Buffalo to do production illustration at Curtiss-Wright, under the engineering department. Later on, he returned to NYC as a Junior Partner in the design studio of Scott Wilson and Fritz Foord, and also free-lanced as a designer and color consultant. He has also designed and created needlepoint and crewel ideas for industry, specializing in raffia on plastic canvas.