# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-soldner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:10:16.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-soldner"
name: "Paul Soldner"
slug: "paul-soldner"
description: "Paul Edmund Soldner was an American ceramic artist and educator, noted for his experimentation with the 16th-century Japanese technique called raku, introducing new methods of firing and post firing, which became known as American Raku. He was the founder of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in 1966."
tagline: "American artist (1921-2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1921-04-24"
deathDate: "2011-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476638666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.paulsoldner.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Soldner"
    title: "Paul Soldner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Soldner"
    title: "Paul Soldner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Soldner"
    title: "Paul Soldner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Soldner"
    title: "Paul Soldner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Soldner"
    title: "Paul Soldner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Soldner"
    title: "Paul Soldner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372220"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump