By Frans Wildenhain
Located in New York, NY
Reduction-fired Frans Wildenhain's wheel-thrown glazed stoneware bottle vase. In his pottery, Frans captured the spirit of the times in 1950's ceramics - a period rich in curves, color, abstract design, simplicity, utility, earth tones, and individual creativity. Incised "FW" on the base.
Provenance: Acquired from a published Tage Frid designed house in Rochester, NY.
Artist's Bio: Frans Rudolf Wildenhain (1905-1980), a well-known sculptor, painter, ceramicist, and teacher, was born in Leipzig, Germany, on June 6, 1905. Wildenhain apprenticed as both a draftsman and lithographer before attending the Bauhaus School in Weimar, Germany. While there, he studied under Paul Klee, László Maholy-Nagy, Gerhard Marcks, and Max Krehan. After the Bauhaus closed, he attended the State School of Applied Art at Halle-Saale. In 1933, he moved to Holland where he operated a workshop in Putten with his wife, the well-known ceramics artist, Marguerite Wildenhain. By 1941, he had moved his workshop to Amsterdam where he taught at the School for Applied Arts. After the end of World War II, he immigrated to the United States and worked in partnership with Marguerite Wildenhain, fiber artist Trude Guermonprez...
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20th Century American Frans Wildenhain
