Taxile Maxmilien Doat (1851 – 1938) – French ceramicist.
2021-04-07
Taxile Maxmilien Doat (1851 – 1938) was a French ceramicist. He was born in Albi, and he was active in University City, Missouri.Read More →
Sergei Vasilevich Chekhonin (1878 – 1936) Russian graphic artist and ceramicist
2021-04-07
Sergei Vasil’evich Chekhonin (1878 – 1936) was a Russian graphic artist and ceramicist. He was professionally active in St. Petersburg and Paris.Read More →
Bernard Howell Leach British Potter
2021-04-04
Born in Hong Kong, Bernhard Howell Leach was a British ceramicist. He had his headquarters in St Ives, Cornwall and Devon. At the Slade School of Fine Art, London, he studied painting. He went to Japan to teach art at the age of 21.Read More →
Jean Luce – french ceramicist and glassware designer
2021-04-04
French designer. He worked primarily in ceramics, but also designed for glass and gold. His ceramics, in an Art Deco style, were manufactured in Limoges Read More →
Stig Lindberg (1916 – 1982) – Swedish ceramic, glass, textile, industrial designer, and painter and illustrator.
2021-03-31
Stig Lindberg (1916 – 1982) was a Swedish ceramic, glass, textile, industrial designer, and painter and illustrator. During his long career with the Gustavsberg pottery factory, Lindberg produced whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines, making him one of Sweden’s most important postwar designers. Read More →
Christian Joachim Danish Ceramicist restrained neo-classical forms
2021-03-28
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 →
Shoji Hamada Japanese Potter
2021-03-26
Shoji Hamada, along with Bernard Leach, was one of the key figures in the development of studio pottery in the 20th century. His influence both in England and the US as well as in his native Japan cannot be underestimated. Read More →
Frederick Hurten Rhead (1880 – 1942) British Ceramicist
2021-03-16
Frederick Hurten Rhead was an English-born American potter and ceramic artist. He was born into a family of potters and designers. He received his English pottery training before moving to the United States in 1902. Read More →
Yūsuke Aida (1931-2015) – Japanese ceramics designer and industrial designer
2021-03-10
Yūsuke Aida (1931-2015) – Japanese ceramics designer and industrial designer. He studied town planning at Chiba University and ceramics under Ken Miyanohara. Read More →
New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art and Architecture
2021-03-09
Throughout the twentieth century, ceramics were widely divided into two sectors. Studio pottery, which was a reaction to the mass-produced wares of the industrial revolution, and fine art by contemporary artists, who just used clay in their practise but rejected many of their traditional codes of practice. The unprecedented increase in ceramic popularity over the last five years has helped create a new type of potter: a ceramic designer: a part-craftsman, a part-designer, a bridge between ceramic craft, collectable design and fine art.Read More →
The Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques
2021-03-09
The Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques By Louisa Taylor Ceramists have been practising their art and craft for thousands of years, and never more prolific than they are today. The Ceramics Bible is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume. This is the new, definitive guide forRead More →
Rookwood Pottery American ceramics manufacturer
2021-03-02
Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics manufacturer that is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Maria Longworth Nichols (1849-1932) attended the first china painting classes at the University of Cincinnati School of Design and Maria Eggers in 1874. Read More →
Aune Siimes (1909 – 1964) Finnish ceramicist
2021-03-01
Aune Siimes (1909 – 1964) was a Finnish ceramicist. She attended Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu in Helsinki from 1932 to 1933.Read More →
Anders B. Liljefors Swedish Ceramicist
2021-01-17
Anders Liljefors was a Swedish ceramicist. He initially concerned himself with household ware, discovered a new method of casting ceramics in a sand mould, and worked feverishly to extract new and unexpected effects from this material during the later years of his life. Education Between 1942 and 1943 he studiedRead More →
Adelaide Robineau an American Ceramicist
2021-01-11
A Collection of Thirty-Four Vases and Jars, 1909 to 1926 Adelaide Romineau was an American ceramicist she was born in Middletown, Connecticut. She was considered one of the most remarkable ceramic artists of the early twentieth century. Robineau was a ceramicist confident in the studio who designed her clay bodies,Read More →
Lucie Rie British Ceramicist
2021-01-10
Lucie Rie was an Austrian ceramicist she was born in Vienna, and active Austria and Britain. Between 1922-26, she studied fine art, at Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna, under Michael Powolny. Embed from Getty Images She first became involved in pottery with Powolny and, 1926-38, was a successful potter in her studio inRead More →
Nikolai Mikhailovich Suetin Russian artist, ceramicist and designer
2020-12-10
Nikolai Mikhailovich Suetin (1897-1954) was a Russian artist, ceramicist, and designer. He was born in Metlevsk Station Kaluga. He was the husband of Anna Leporskaia. Between 1918-22, he studied Vitebsk Art School. He became a member of Kazimir Malevich’s Posnovis/Unovis group in 1919, and, with Il’ia Chashnik, was one of Malevich’s closest collaborators. Read More →
Lucien Levy Dhurmer (1865 – 1953) a French Ceramicist
2020-12-09
Lucien Levy Dhurmer was a French ceramicist; born Algiers. He studied painting, lithography, design, and ceramics at the Paris municipal school of drawing and sculpture. He was a ceramicist 1887-95 while working at Clement Massier’s factory at Golfe-Juan as its artistic director. At the 1882 salon in Paris, he showedRead More →
Hertha Hillfon Swedish Ceramicist
2020-11-12
Bio from Swedish Wikipedia article translated with Google Translate and edited with Grammarly Hertha Maria Lillemor Hillfon, born Forsberg 2 June 1921 in Säbrå parish in Ångermanland, she died 25 October 2013 in Hägersten in Stockholm, was a Swedish ceramicist and sculptor. Biography Hertha Hillfon grew up as the fourth of fourteen children. The familyRead More →