Otto natzler biography

  • Born in Vienna, Austria, Gertrud Natzler.
  • Otto Natzler (January 31, – April 7, ) was an Austrian–born ceramicist.
  • Otto Natzler was an Austrian–born ceramicist.

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    Gertrud Natzler, Gertrud Amon, and Otto Natzler

    Born Vienna, Austria

    Died Los Angeles, California

    EDUCATION

    Handelsakademie, Vienna, Austria

    BIOGRAPHY 

    Gertrud Natzler and her husband, Otto, are known for their elegant, classical earthenware vessel forms that she threw and were glazed and fired by Otto. They were artistic collaborators for over 30 years. 

    Soon after meeting in Vienna, Austria, Gertrud encouraged Otto to take up ceramics.  They worked in the workshop of Franz Iskra where they used commercially available glazes. In  Otto and Gertrud set up their own studio and installed an electric kiln.  Not knowing the correct firing temperatures or chemistry of commercially available glazes they had used in Iskra’s studio, the first firing failed. Otto applied his engineering discipline to research and develop a palette of glazes he liked and could control. He succeeded in

    While Otto developed his glaze technology, Gertrud worked to refine

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    Otto Natzler, with Gertrud Natzler

    Form and Fire: Natzler Ceramics, . Washington: Published for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press,

    Gertrud and Otto Natzler, A Retrospective Exhibition (15th June - 14th August ).  Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

    Kardon, Janet. Gertrud and Otto Natzler: Collaboration/Solitude. New York, NY: American Craft Museum,

    Lynn, Martha Drexler. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,  

    Natzler, Otto, Senta Raizen and Ian McKibbin White. The Ceramic Work of Gertrud and Otto Natzler. San Francisco, CA: M.H. dem Young Memorial Museum,

    Natzler, Gertrud and Otto. Catalog of the Collection of Mrs. Leonard M. Sperry and a Monograph by Otto Natzler. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art,  

    The Jewish Museum. Ceramics an Exhibit: Gertrud and Otto Natzler.

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    Otto Natzler

    Otto Natzler (January 31, &#; April 7, ) was an Austrian–born ceramicist. With his wife Gertrud Natzler, he produced what were considered some of the most admired ceramic pieces of the 20th century.[1]

    Personal life

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    The son of Dr. Sigmund Natzler, a dentist, and a stay-at-home mother Regina Frieda Lowy, Natzler was born in Vienna, Austria and first exposed to art by his uncle. He began his working life at the age of 15 by taking a textile design course and subsequently finding employment devising colour schemes at a local necktie factory, a company that was blacklisted in Nazi Germany and shut down in [1]

    Natzler's first wife was Bertha Steinmetz whom he married on November 9, in Vienna, Austria. Naztler met his second wife and partner, secretary Gertrud Amon, in , although their romance did not blossom until after he divorced his first wife in [1] Though they were self-taught, by they had already begun to submit pieces, win

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