Katharina von Bora was the daughter of a Jan von Bora auf Lippendorf and his wife Margarete, whose family name has not been established. Both were only specifically mentioned in the year 1505. It is certain that her father sent the five-year-old Katharina to the Benedictine cloister in Brehna in 1504 for education. This is documented in a letter from Laurentius Zoch to Martin Luther, written on October 30, 1531. This letter is the only evidence for Katharina von Bora's time spent within the monastery. At the age of nine she moved to the Cistercian monastery of Marienthron (Mary's Throne) in Nimbschen, near
Catharine Rembert Catharine Phillips was hired as an instructor of design by the University Art Department, its third faculty member. In 1930, she married Allen Jones Rembert (1904-1951). Catharine Rembert remained on the Art Department faculty for the next 40 years, retiring in 1967 as assistant professor emeritus. During her years at the University, Rembert availed herself of opportunities to advance her study of art, including with André Lhote in Paris, Amédée Ozenfant in New York, Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, and at Parsons School of Design and the San Francisco Art Institute. She incorporated modernist methods of teaching into her own. Among