Ceramacist

Lucie Rie (1902 – 1995) British Ceramicist

On: September 27, 2022

Tagged: Austrian Designer 🇦🇹, British Designers 🇬🇧, Ceramicists, ceramics, london, potter, pottery

Lucie Rie (1902 – 1995) was an Austrian-born British ceramicist. Between 1922-26, she studied fine art, at Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna, under Michael Powolny. Her most famous works are vases, bottles, and bowls inspired by Japan. Lucie Rie Footed Bowl c. 1951, owned by publisher Susan Shaw. Gold medal for work in the Austrian pavilion at the 1937 Paris ‘Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques clans la Vie Moderne’ Exhibition of her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Read More →

Susie Cooper (1902 – 1995) British ceramicist and designer

On: September 26, 2022

Tagged: britain, british, British - Ceramics, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, ceramics - british, paris, pottery, work

Breakfast in an American middle-class home in the 1940s was often served on dishes designed by English designer Susie Cooper (1902-1995).Read More →

Adelaide Robineau (1865 – 1929) an American Ceramicist

On: September 26, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, Ceramicists, ceramics, female designer, potters, pottery

Adelaide Romineau was an American ceramicist she was born in Middletown, Connecticut. At the time, few women were involved in the technical aspects of ceramic production. It was considered appropriate for women to be decorators only, rather than to be part of more technical pursuits.Read More →

Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) British wood engraver & ceramicist

On: August 17, 2022

Tagged: artist, british, British - Ceramics, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, ceramics - british

Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II. Ravilious studied with Edward Bawden and Charles Mahoney at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London in 1928. He painted a series of marionette-like murals for Morley College, which were destroyed by bombing in 1941.Read More →

Theodor Bogler (1897-1968) German ceramicist and designer

On: August 12, 2022

Tagged: Bauhaus, ceramicist, cermamics, German Designers 🇩🇪, German 🇩🇪

Theodor Bogler (1897 – 1968) studied at the Bauhaus and the University of Munich. He designed a 1923 mocha machine in ceramics for serial production. His earthenware kitchen containers by Velten-Vordamm ceramic factory were shown at the Bauhaus Exhibition.Read More →

Ambrogio Pozzi (b.1931) Italian Industrial Designer

On: July 20, 2022

Tagged: Ceramicists, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, italian 🇮🇹, Japanese Ceramicist

He worked in the family firm Ceramica Franco Pozzi in Gallarate from 1951 and redesigned its traditional products in an award-winning Functional style. His widely published 1970 Compact stacking coffee service was designed for machine production in three sizes. He set up his design practice, where clients included Riedel, Rossi, Guzzini, Pierre Cardin, Rosenthal, Norex, La Rinascente department store, and Alitalia. Read More →

Michael Cardew (1901 – 1983) British Ceramicist

On: July 20, 2022

Tagged: British - Ceramics, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics

He learned to throw pottery from William Fishley Holland at the Braunton Pottery, North Devon, 1921—22. In 1923, he met Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at St. Ives.Read More →

Otto Lindig (1895 – 1966) German Ceramicist

On: July 18, 2022

Tagged: Bauhaus, ceramicist, Ceramicists, Ceramics - German

He was an enthusiastic supporter of the pottery workshop at the Bauhaus, contending that it should be included in the school’s curriculum. When it was separated into design and production workshops, Lindig supervised the latter, combining hand work and mass production approaches.Read More →

Trude Petri-Rabin (1906 – 1989) German Ceramicist

On: July 18, 2022

Tagged: ceramicist, Ceramicists, Ceramics - German, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪

From 1927 she studied porcelain at Verinigdten Staatsshulen für freie und angewandte Kunst (United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts), Berlin, and Staatliche Porzellan-Manufakture, Berlin (Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin).Read More →

Grand Feu Art Pottery – California

On: July 17, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, ceramic design, Ceramicists, ceramics, pottery

Grand Feu Art Pottery, was founded in California by Cornelius Brauckman. Its output was of high quality and aesthetically distinctive. Generically, grand feu is ceramic ware fired at 2500°F (1400°C), maturing its body and glaze simultaneously. Grand feu is both porcelain and gres, and Grand Feu Art Pottery specialises in the latter.Read More →

Edward Lycett (1833 – 1910) British-American Ceramicist

On: July 9, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, ceramic design, Ceramicists, ceramics

Edward Lycett (1833 – 1910) was a British Ceramicist. He was born in Newcastle under Lyme. He was professionally active in New York.Read More →

Laura Knight (1877 – 1970) British Painter and Ceramicist

On: July 2, 2022

Tagged: british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics

She was a juror of the 1922 Carnegie International competition, Pittsburgh. She designed both the shapes and the decorations for the 1933—34 Circus range of tableware produced by Arthur J. Wilkinson, Burslem, under Clarice Cliff’s supervision.Read More →

Christian Joachim (1870 – 1943) Danish Ceramicist restrained neo-classical forms

On: June 28, 2022

Tagged: Ceramicists, ceramics, danish ceramics, Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, Denmark, designer, designers, Nordic Design

Christian Joachim was a Danish Ceramicist (1870-1943). Between 1889 he studied at the Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen.

Between 1897 and 1900, Joachim made ceramics with George Jensen in a workshop outside Copenhagen. Between 1901 to 1933 worked for the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory, where Arno Malinowski sometimes decorated his restrained neoclassical forms. Read More →

Edward Taylor (1838 – 1912) and Ruskin Pottery

On: June 22, 2022

Tagged: arts and craft, british, british design, British Designers 🇬🇧, ceramic, ceramic design, Ceramicists, ceramics, potter, pottery

While it was prone to cynicism in the 20th century – for example, it was often pointed out that Morris’ handmade goods were too costly for anyone other than the wealthy he claimed to despise. However, through a fertile and now highly valued time of applied art, the Arts & Crafts wove a distinctive pattern.Read More →

Theodor Kittelsen (1857 – 1914) Norwegian Ceramicist and Book Illustrator

On: June 19, 2022

Tagged: book illustrator, Ceramicists, norway, norwegian design, norwegian designer

In the early 1900s, he was a designer for Porsgrunds Porselaensfabrik, Porsgrunn. In 1882 Kittelsen was granted a state scholarship to study in Paris. In 1887 he returned to Norway for good. When back in Norway, he found nature to be a great inspiration. He spent the next two years in Lofoten, where he lived with his sister and brother-in-law at Skomvær Lighthouse. Kittelsen also started to write texts to his drawings there. Read More →

Jonina Gudhnadottir (b.1943) Icelandic Ceramicist

On: June 15, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics

Jonina Gudhnadottir (b.1943) is an Icelandic ceramicist. She is based professionally in Reykavik. Her work has been seen in many exhibitions.Read More →

Alexandre Bigot (1862 – 1927) French Ceramicist

On: April 23, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics

Alexandre Bigot (1862-1927) was a french ceramics manufacturer. He was initially a physics and chemistry teacher. Read More →

Joseph and Pierre Moughin – French ceramicists

On: April 15, 2022

Tagged: ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, ceramics - french, French design

Joseph Mougin decided to become a ceramicist after seeing an exhibition of Jean Carriès’s pottery in 1894. He set up a studio and a kiln in Montrouge with the help of sculptor friend Lemarquier and his brother Pierre Mougin.Read More →

Susumu Ilkuta Japanese Ceramicist

On: January 20, 2022

Tagged: ceramicist, Ceramicists, Japanese Ceramicist, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵

He worked as a fashion designer in Tokyo. In 1958, he moved to New York at the invitation of hatter Lilly Daché. He studied ceramics in night classes in New York. In 1973, he returned to Japan, where he studied with Kohbei and painted on unfired porcelain.Read More →

Rut Bryk (1916 – 1999) Swedish ceramicist/graphic/textile designer

On: January 14, 2022

Tagged: ceramic design, Ceramicists, ceramics, finnish, finnish design, finnish designer 🇫🇮, Scandi Design, scandinavian design

In 1942, she worked for the pottery Arabia, Helsinki; from 1959, she was a freelance ceramics designer with Rosenthal, Selb. From the 1960s, she worked for Vassa Cotton Company.Read More →

Ceramacist

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this:

Like this: