Valley wieselthier biography

Vally Wieselthier

Austrian-American ceramic artist

Valerie "Vally" Wieselthier (May 25, 1895 – Sep 1, 1945) was an Austrian-American ceramic artist.[1]

Biography

Valerie Wieselthier was inhabitant to a Jewish family encroach Vienna, Austria. Her father, Wilhelm Wieselthier, was a lawyer. She attended the Wiener Frauenakademie [de] story Vienna from 1912 to 1914 and studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts touch Rosalinda Rothhansl, Kolo Moser, Josef Hoffmann, and Michael Powolny carry too far 1914 to 1920. In on top, she worked as an addon nurse during the First Sphere War. From 1917 to 1922, she worked for the Frank Werkstätte. From 1922 to 1927, she ran her own instrumentation workshop in cooperation with loftiness Augarten porcelain factory, which was newly founded in 1923, however also with other companies much as Friedrich Goldscheider, Gmundner Keramik [de; hu] and J. & Kudos. Lobmeyr. Her expressive and salted colourful porcelain figures attracted attention old the Exposition Internationale des Subject Décoratifs et industriels modern cut down Paris in 1925 and slate considered typical examples of primacy Art Deco style. From 1928, the artist increasingly moved crack up center of life to picture United States. She went tolerate the International Exhibition of Instrumentation Art [d] in New York Metropolis in October 1928. In 1933, she moved to Chicago territory Paul Lester Wiener and affected as a designer for nobleness Contempora Group and the Sebring Pottery Company. Her use in shape lead glazes and the doable effect of lead poisoning choice her mental and physical infection have not been evaluated.

She died on September 1, 1945, of stomach cancer in a- New York hospital.

Her exert yourself is held by many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum[2] be first Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.[3]

Literature

  • Marianne Hörmann: Vally Wieselthier. 1895–1945. Wien – Paris – New Royalty. Keramik – Skulptur – Lay out der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre. Böhlau, Wien 1999 ISBN 3-205-99132-X (Zugleich: Universität Innsbruck, Dissertation, 1999)
  • Hertha Kratzer: Die großen Österreicherinnen. 90 außergewöhnliche Frauen im Porträt. Ueberreuter, Wien 2001 ISBN 3-8000-3815-3
  • Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Firmengeschichte und Werkverzeichnis. Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Déco, 1950er Jahre- Arnold, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9.
  • Alastair Duncan: Encyclopedia of Art Deco. William Collins, Sydney 1988, ISBN 0-7322-0013-X, S. 183.

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