William Waldren was born in New York City (1924) and died in Deià (2003). He dedicated his life to painting and archaeology. He spent most of his life in Mallorca.
He studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Academie Julian in Paris. In 1953 he settled in Deià (Mallorca), where in 1962 he created the artistic grup "Els deu d'Es Teix".
William waldren is buried in Deià where his wife and daughters still live.
Waldren made important excavations in different parts of Mallorca, above all in Serra de Tramuntana. He also published many books on his discoveries.
In Deià, there is an archeology museum founded by him (deià Archaelogical Museum Research Centre, DAMARC) which can still be visited today. Some of his collections are also exhibited in the Balearic Prehistoric Archeology museum. In this museum, there is a collection of fossil remains of Myotragus balearicus Bate, an artiodactyl native to the Balearics, whose extinction coincided with the appearance of the human population on the archipelago. The owner of the collection is DAMARC and it is permanently housed at "the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals" for its suitable conservation. All the material, currently going through Museum treatment and cataloging, comes from the excavations carried out by William Waldren in the Muleta Cave (near Sóller). It is the most important collection of fossil remains of Myotragus balearicus Bate in the world due to the number of samples it contains.
Perhaps, this sentence of his is the best commentary on his own work:
"My work could be the line of difference between two states. The line between life and death, between black and white, between light and dark, love and hate. The line that leaves a wave printed on the wet sand" William Waldren
He studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Academie Julian in Paris. In 1953 he settled in Deià (Mallorca), where in 1962 he created the artistic grup "Els deu d'Es Teix".
William waldren is buried in Deià where his wife and daughters still live.
Waldren made important excavations in different parts of Mallorca, above all in Serra de Tramuntana. He also published many books on his discoveries.
In Deià, there is an archeology museum founded by him (deià Archaelogical Museum Research Centre, DAMARC) which can still be visited today. Some of his collections are also exhibited in the Balearic Prehistoric Archeology museum. In this museum, there is a collection of fossil remains of Myotragus balearicus Bate, an artiodactyl native to the Balearics, whose extinction coincided with the appearance of the human population on the archipelago. The owner of the collection is DAMARC and it is permanently housed at "the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals" for its suitable conservation. All the material, currently going through Museum treatment and cataloging, comes from the excavations carried out by William Waldren in the Muleta Cave (near Sóller). It is the most important collection of fossil remains of Myotragus balearicus Bate in the world due to the number of samples it contains.
Perhaps, this sentence of his is the best commentary on his own work:
"My work could be the line of difference between two states. The line between life and death, between black and white, between light and dark, love and hate. The line that leaves a wave printed on the wet sand" William Waldren
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