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Eva Zeisel worked in potteries in both Budapest and Hamburg before moving to Schramberger Majolika-Fabrik. While at the pottery in Germany's Black Forest region between 1928 and 1930, she introduced surface patterns and shapes that were heavily influenced by contemporary abstract painting and geometric Bauhaus-style architecture. In 1933, a New York trader observer said, "One of the new ranges of Otto Goetz is their Black Forest art pottery which follows modern tendencies in line and colorings... All the pieces are decorated with a modern arrangement of lines and blocks in two tones of brown, blue, and bright yellow on a yellow glaze. There are open-footed bowls, vases, and baskets, and a tea pot modeled along 'architectural' lines." Based on comparison with other objects known to have been designed by Zeisel, comments from Zeisel herself, and period trade catalogues, the shape and decoration of this example are attributed to her.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, China and Glass in America 1880-1980 (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), 444.
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Until 1997: Charyl Gayda, E. Petersburg, Pennsylvania [1]
From 1997: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above [1]
[1] View invoice (dated October 27, 1997, copy in Collections Record Object File) and Dallas Museum of Art check (dated November 10, 1997).
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General Description
Eva Zeisel worked in potteries in both Budapest and Hamburg before moving to Schramberger Majolika-Fabrik. While at the pottery in Germany's Black Forest region between 1928 and 1930, she introduced surface patterns and shapes that were heavily influenced by contemporary abstract painting and geometric Bauhaus-style architecture. In 1933, a New York trader observer said, "One of the new ranges of Otto Goetz is their Black Forest art pottery which follows modern tendencies in line and colorings... All the pieces are decorated with a modern arrangement of lines and blocks in two tones of brown, blue, and bright yellow on a yellow glaze. There are open-footed bowls, vases, and baskets, and a tea pot modeled along 'architectural' lines." Based on comparison with other objects known to have been designed by Zeisel, comments from Zeisel herself, and period trade catalogues, the shape and decoration of this example are attributed to her.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, China and Glass in America 1880-1980 (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art: New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), 444.
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Notes
completed source and added CCs - JBA 9/28
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1997: Charyl Gayda, E. Petersburg, Pennsylvania [1]
From 1997: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above [1]
[1] View invoice (dated October 27, 1997, copy in Collections Record Object File) and Dallas Museum of Art check (dated November 10, 1997).
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