Dame Lucie Rie Ceramics

A passion for pottery by robin cawdron stewart a t the end of last year london s jewish museum opened a beautifully curated exhibition shaping ceramics.

Dame lucie rie ceramics. As one of the most respected potters of the 20th century dame lucie rie 1902 1995 was known for her finely thrown and beautifully decorated functional domestic ceramics. This mug was made as a demonstration piece by rie in the prescence of the vendor in the mid 1950s when she. Born on march 16 1902 in vienna austria she studied pottery at the vienna kunstgewerbeschule a school of arts and crafts. The life and work of lucie rie 1902 1995 ceramic review publishing ltd 2002.

Dame lucie rie and hans coper a tall stoneware mug with dark brown matt glaze to the lower half and mottled white glaze to the upper half interior and base impressed potters marks 4 1 4in. 200 300 description. Dame lucie rie austrian born british studio potter. Dame lucie rie 93 noted ceramicist new york times april 3 1995 b10.

Thames news report following lucie rie whose pottery work will soon be featured on set of four stamps issued by the post office. Dame lucie rie is a name that is always at the forefront of a conversation on modern ceramics but one that is often overlooked when talking about important artists of the 20th century yet the story of her career is one that deserves to place her as a great 20th century artist. Hans coper lucie rie their contemporaries university of east anglia press 2002. From lucie rie to edmund de waal celebrating the pivotal role that jewish ceramicists played in transforming the field for british studio ceramics influencing successive.

The impulse to cup one of dame lucie rie s stunning bowls and vases in two hands is strong at a major exhibition of her studio ceramics at the centre of ceramic art coca at york art gallery. Her unique and complex slip glaze surface treatment and inventive kiln processing influenced an entire generation of younger british ceramists. Rie was educated at the vienna gymnasium and at the arts and crafts school. Lucie rie was an austrian born british ceramics artist.

Rie s works usually consisting of hand thrown pots bottles and bowl forms are noteworthy for their modernist forms and her use of bright colors.