€2,200
DINA KUHN*
(Vienna 1891 - 1963 Brachttal-Schlierbach)
Lenz
ceramic, enameled, 52 x cm
monogrammed DK, Wiener Werkstätte, Faience, cream white glazed, glaze painting in blue, pink and purple-brown. Inside the base inscribed: WW 375, DK (embossed)
Austrian ceramist and craftswoman of the 20th century. From 1912 studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna with Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Strnad, Franz Cizek, Kolo Moser and Michael Powolny. Member of the Wiener Werkstätte, Produced designs for ceramic figures, wallpaper, fabric patterns, fireplace coverings, tiles, stoves, lamps and vases. 1923 Founded her own ceramic workshop with her brother and Emanuel Iskra. Also designed ceramics for the Friedrich Goldscheider manufactory, the Augarten porcelain manufactory and the Bimini glass manufactory in the 1920s. Worked from 1937 for the Waechtersbach ceramics manufactory in Brachttal-Schlierbach, Hesse, where she also lived from 1940. Member of the Association of Women Artists of Austria and the Vienna Women's Art.
The Wiener Werkstätte set out to create artistically high-quality handicrafts in all areas of everyday use - from furniture and architecture to porcelain, glass and fashion - in close contact between artists and consumers. It is the interdisciplinary claim to holistic permeation of all areas of life as well as their trend-setting designs with which the Wiener Werkstätte has written design history in the long term. Its founder, the architect Josef Hoffmann, joined the graphic artist and painter Koloman Moser and the patron Fritz Waerndorfer in 1903 with the aim of founding the now world-famous Wiener Werkstätte association for handicrafts. They wanted to establish a marketable aesthetic counterpoint to encrusted historicism. It is often overlooked that women also played a key role in this success story. In 1937 around 180 of the company's female artists were named. Most of these women received their education at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and were finally brought to the WW by Hoffmann to bring their creative energy to bear in the fields of textile design, fashion, home accessories, toys, art and ceramics. They also developed unusual wall designs for interiors - be it apartments, bars or exhibition rooms. With the dissolution of the Wiener Werkstätte in 1932, many of the women artists who were highly regarded at the time were largely forgotten.
SCHÄTZPREIS/ESTIMATE € 1.200 - 2.400
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