Edmund de Waal

Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal OBE, FRSA ( born 1964 in Nottingham, England) is an English Potter, professor and author.

Life

Edmund de Waal is the son of the dean of the Cathedral of Canterbury Victor de Waal. He graduated from the school at the King's School in Canterbury, before he received a scholarship for the study of English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Already during his school days in Canterbury de Waal learned the craft of pottery. So it was only logical that he opened his own pottery in the west of England, near the border with Wales after graduation in Cambridge on College Trinity Hall. At the same time he learned the Japanese language at the University of Sheffield and was awarded a two-year scholarship from the foundation of the Japanese stock market brokerage firm Daiwa shoken Group Honda, which enabled him to work in the Mejiro Ceramics Studio in Tokyo.

De Waal ceramics are influenced by Japanese pottery, show simple shapes and muted colors. The formations are mostly cylindrical porcelain pots with pale celadon glazes. His works are shown in Chatsworth House, Kettle's Yard, Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He lives and works in London. De Waal is since 2004 Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster in London.

2010 de Waals family story The Hare with Amber Eyes was the: a Hidden Inheritance published and awarded in the same year with the Costa Book Award in the category of biography. The title refers to one of the 264 Netsukefiguren, who had inherited de Waal from his great-uncle Iggy ( Ignace / Ignace ) Leo Ephrussi. The story depicts the life of his ancestors, the Jewish family Ephrussi, who became known as Greek Sephardim by trade and banking in the whole of Europe, but were then persecuted as Jews in the time of National Socialism.

Elisabeth de Waal

De Waal grandmother, Elisabeth de Waal, was born in 1899 in the Viennese Jewish family Ephrussi. She married the Dutch Hendrick de Waal and disappeared with him through Europe, only to come to England during World War II. Her grandson wrote the foreword to her novel Thursdays at Kanakis, which appeared in 2014 in Zsolnay in German translation.

Honors and Awards

  • 2011: Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature, for The Hare with Amber Eyes the
  • 2010: Costa Book Award, division biography, for the same book
  • 2003: Silver Medal, World Ceramics Exhibition, Korea
  • 2000-2002: Leverhulme Research Fellowship
  • 1998: British Council Award
  • 1996: London Arts Board, Individual Artists Award
  • 1996: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ( FRSA )
  • 1991-1993: scholarship of Daiwa Anglo - Japanese Foundation

Exhibitions

Writings

  • Claudia Clare: The Pot Book. Phaidon, New York (USA ) 2011, ISBN 978-0-7148-4799-3.
  • The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. Chatto & Windus, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7011-8417-9. At the same time at Straus and Giroux, New York City. German: The Hare with Amber Eyes - The hidden heritage of the Ephrussi family. Translated by Brigitte Hirzensauer. Zsolnay, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-05556-8. December 2011: ORF leaderboard.
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