Austrian Art Female Ceramic Head Gudrun Baudisch Wiener Werkstatte circa 1928

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Austrian Art Female Ceramic Head Gudrun Baudisch Wiener Werkstatte circa 1928

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Austrian Art Female Head designed by Gudrun Baudisch executed by Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien circa 1928 expressive ceramic marked Gudrun Baudisch (1907-1982) was one of the innovative artists who had a decisive influence on the ceramic works of the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1926, at the age of nineteen, she was accepted into the ceramics department under the direction of Vally Wieselthier and soon became one of the most important young artists. She worked for the Wiener Werkstätte for three years before opening her own ceramics workshop in Vienna in 1930. Supported and influenced by her mentor Vally Wieselthier, the works of Baudisch stand for the “Expressive Ceramics” of the Wiener Werkstätte par excellence. This artistic pioneering work can easily be illustrated by the example of the woman’s head. Baudisch designs the striking sculpture as an image of the emancipated woman of the 1920s. With reduced stylistic means she gives the fashionable lady the then modern look with a short haircut. She looks self-confidently with raised eyebrows and a seductive look. Baudisch thus endows the woman’s head with the aura of self-determined aloofness and creates a stylistically convincing transition from Art Nouveau to Art Déco. Marked with "WW" for Wiener Werkstatte, "MADE IN AUSTRIA", artist's monogramm "GB" for Gudrun Baudisch, mod. no. 407/3, original sales labels Documented photograph in the archive of the Wiener Werkstätte in the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, inv. no. WWF 110-42-5. Contemporary photo of Gudrun Baudisch making the head in Megan Brandow-Faller, “The Female Secession”, The Pennsylvania University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania 2020, p. 4.

Creator:
Gudrun Baudisch (Artist),Wiener Werkstätte (Manufacturer)
Dimensions:
Height: 9.85 in (25 cm)Width: 3.94 in (10 cm)Depth: 5.52 in (14 cm)
Style:
Art Nouveau (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Ceramic,Earthenware,Glazed
Place of Origin:
Austria
Period:
1920-1929
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1928
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Klosterneuburg, AT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU5830225610312