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Gertrud and Otto Natzler
Closed-form vase
- Estimate
- $4,000 - 6,000
$6,000
Lot Details
Black earthenware, "dark peach blossom" glaze with craters, melt fissures, smoke marks and elephant skin.
completed 1975
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) high
Underside signed with NATZLER/+ and with original inventory label printed O584.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The present lot was thrown by Gertrud prior to her death and posthumously glazed by Otto.
Provenance
Exhibited
Gertrud and Otto Natzler
Austrian | 1908Gertrud and Otto Natzler met in Vienna in 1934. Gertrud was studying ceramics, and quickly became adept at throwing. Otto was at first infatuated with Gertrud, and quickly thereafter with experimenting with glazes. Within two years of meeting they had established a studio together. In 1938, the same year in which they were married and awarded a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition, Nazi Germany annexed Austria and they left Vienna for California. They soon returned to their practice, with Gertrud throwing the delicate forms that Otto would then glaze.
Over almost forty years, Gertrud created increasingly sophisticated and thin-walled pottery and Otto continued to refine his developments with glazes. Exhibited and appreciated in their own time, their work was hugely significant to the emergence of American studio ceramics in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as a testament to collaboration and dedication to craft.
Browse ArtistOver almost forty years, Gertrud created increasingly sophisticated and thin-walled pottery and Otto continued to refine his developments with glazes. Exhibited and appreciated in their own time, their work was hugely significant to the emergence of American studio ceramics in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as a testament to collaboration and dedication to craft.