Dame Lucie Rie Ceramics

Her unique and complex slip glaze surface treatment and inventive kiln processing influenced an entire generation of younger british ceramists.

Dame lucie rie ceramics.

The life and work of lucie rie 1902 1995 ceramic review publishing ltd 2002. Rie s works usually consisting of hand thrown pots bottles and bowl forms are noteworthy for their modernist forms and her use of bright colors. As one of the most respected potters of the 20th century dame lucie rie 1902 1995 was known for her finely thrown and beautifully decorated functional domestic ceramics. 22 june 2018 3 november 2019.

Lucie rie s death at the age of 93 brings to an end the long productive and distinguished life of one of the leading studio potters of the 20th century and marks the end of an era for the craft. 200 300 description. The impulse to cup one of dame lucie rie s stunning bowls and vases in two hands is strong at a major exhibition of her studio ceramics at the centre of ceramic art coca at york art gallery. Lucie rie was an austrian born british ceramics artist.

Rie was educated at the vienna gymnasium and at the arts and crafts school. Dame lucie rie and hans coper a tall stoneware mug with dark brown matt glaze to the lower half and mottled white glaze to the upper half interior and base impressed potters marks 4 1 4in. Born on march 16 1902 in vienna austria she studied pottery at the vienna kunstgewerbeschule a school of arts and crafts. 10 7cm high hairline crack visible to interior.

Dame lucie rie 93 noted ceramicist new york times april 3 1995 b10. Hans coper lucie rie their contemporaries university of east anglia press 2002. Thames news report following lucie rie whose pottery work will soon be featured on set of four stamps issued by the post office. This mug was made as a demonstration piece by rie in the prescence of the vendor in the mid 1950s when she.

Dame lucie rie austrian born british studio potter.