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Carl Schuster
A Scholar of Hidden Signs Carl Schuster was not a painter, but an art historian and researcher who spent his life looking for the shared threads that connect human cultures. Born in Milwaukee, United States of America, in 1904, he possessed a natural curiosity for puzzles, codes, and the many languages of the world. This early fascination with ciphers would later define his approach to studying the symbols found in folk art. He studied
at Harvard University, earning both his B.A. and M.A., before moving to Peking in 1931. During those years in China, he began a lifelong habit of collecting textile fragments and exploring remote areas to find traces of ancient patterns. His path took him from the classrooms of Harvard to the University of Vienna, where he earned his doctorate in 1934. He worked briefly as an assistant curator at the Philadelphia Art Museum, but the…