Gertrud and Otto Natzler - Design New York Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Mr. and Mrs. Warren H. Corning, Cleveland, Ohio

  • Literature

    American studio pottery, exh. cat., The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1968, fig. 8 for a similar example; Form and Fire, Natzler Ceramics 1939-1972, exh. cat., The Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1973, p. 61, fig. 77 for a similar example

  • Artist Biography

    Gertrud and Otto Natzler

    Austrian • 1908 - 1971 (Gertrud), 2007 (Otto)

    Gertrud 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.

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ELLEN AND DIXON LONG, CALIFORNIA

27

Single-stem vase

ca. 1960
Glazed earthenware.
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high
Underside signed in ink with “NATZLER” and with paper label with “M628.”

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $3,250

Design

3 June 2009, 11am
New York