Born in Russia to a German-Russian artist family, he had a father who was a theatrical designer and portraitist. In 1939, the family was politically persecuted and deported to Berlin, Germany. Adolf Sehring showed an early talent and won many awards as a youngster such as First Prize of Europe, Germany and Berlin. He studied under his father and at the Academy in Berlin and earned a handsome income working at the movie studios (U.F.A.) where his father George Sehring was an art director.
In 1949 the family immigrated to the United States. During the Korean conflict, Adolf served as a much decorated division artist in the U.S. Army. For the next 12 years he ran a successful manufacturing, design, and import business in the interior decorating field, only to return to his 'lifetime love' of art.
Today, Sehring lives and works at 'Tetley', his stately Southern Plantation in Somerset, Virginia, where he enjoys entertaining many gallery clients with traditional Southern hospitality. Winner of many international awards, his work is in collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Grand Palais in Paris, U.S. Embassy to Sweden, Chrysler Museum, the Mellons, Temple University, Museum of St. Mary's Institute for Eastern Culture, Bayly Museum of the University of Virginia, Hamilton Insurance Company Collection, U.S. State Department Art for Embassies, Museum of Church History Art, and the Vatican Collection.
Sehring has appeared and lectured on many radio and television talk shows and has been featured on PM Magazine, Panorama, and the syndicated afternoon TV shows. He is listed in many important art registries such as Who's Who in American Art.
Education
Studied under his father, George Sehring, at the Academy in Berlin
Collections (Partial Listing)
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Grand Palais, Paris
The U.S. Embassy to Sweden
Chrysler Museum
The Mellonw
Temple University
Museum of St. Mary's
Institute of Eastern Culture
Bayly Museum of the University of Virginia
Museum of Church History Art
The Vatican Collection
Born in Hungary on June 20, 1910, Dr. D. Emerick Szilagyi is considered a pioneer in vascular surgery and was among the first to establish a separate division for the treatment of vascular diseases at Henry Ford Hospital.
After earning his bachelor's degree from the Sorbonne in Paris, Szilagyi came to the United States and earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. He served his internship at University Hospital in Ann Arbor from1935-36 and was an assistant resident in surgery and later a teaching assistant in pathology at University Hospital. He then performed his surgical residency at Henry Ford Hospital from 1939-42.
Prior to becoming chief surgical resident at Henry Ford Hospital in 1945, Dr. Szilagyi was medical director at the Ford Motor Company Rubber Plantation in Paro, Brazil.
In 1952 Dr. Szilagyi performed Michigan's and one of the world's first grafts of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Two years later, Dr. Szilagyi established the first homograft blood vessel bank in the state. Sterilized homografts from human cadavers were then used in clinical practice and shared with other institutions. Then, in 1958, Dr. Szilagyi made history by becoming the first vascular surgeon to perform an aortic aneurysm repair live on television.
In the 1960s, Henry Ford Hospital opened a coronary care unit for patients needing intensive care for heart disease or following surgery. Dr. Szilagyi was among the first to resect an abdominal aortic aneurysm (bulging artery at risk of bursting) at the point where the aorta branches into two other arteries. This development has saved thousands of lives.
Dr. Szilagyi was appointed chairmen of the Department of Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in 1966. In February, Drs. Szilagyi, Roger Smith and Joseph Elliott pioneered developments in vascular surgery, including the use of arterial reconstruction in the treatment of peripheral occlusive arteriopathy, the treatment of peripheral congenital arteriovenous fistulas, and the use of synthetic grafting materials such as the dacron graft manufactured for them by a Philadelphia ribbon maker. In 1968, these three doctors also performed the first allogeneic kidney transplant in Detroit.
Dr. Szilagyi stepped down as chairman of the Department of Surgery in 1975, after 36 years of service to the hospital. Throughout his career, he authored or co-authored more than 170 publications. He became a consultant and continued to edit the Journal of Vascular Surgery, spending several mornings a week in his office in the Clara Ford Pavilion for more than 20 years