Eva Zeisel

Eva Zeisel ( born November 13, 1906 in Budapest, † December 30, 2011 in New York City ) was an American industrial designer who was best known in the United States through their ceramic works from the period after their immigration. Working from Zeisels career can be seen in museum collections around the world.

Life

Zeisel was born Éva Amália Striker than in a wealthy and educated Jewish family. After some practice in art and painting, she received an apprenticeship as a potter. After she had learned to work with ceramics, she decided to cooperate with German manufacturers. In 1928 she was a designer for the Schramberger majolica in Schramberg and worked there about two years. She designed there numerous tea sets, vases, inkwells and other ceramics. Your designs for Schramberger majolica based largely on geometric shapes and are influenced by the Bauhaus style. Eva Zeisel 1930 moved to Berlin, where she worked as a designer in the Carstens factory.

1932 Zeisel went to the USSR, where she worked as one of the foreign experts who were at that time very welcome. Later Zeisel has even been artistic director of the Soviet ceramics industry. This success, however, was short-lived, as it was suspected to be a co-conspirator in an assassination attempt on Stalin arrested. After a year, she was released and deported to Austria.

From there, they had to flee again, this time from the Nazis. Zeisel 1938 left the country with her future husband Hans Zeisel. The wedding took place in England, from where they still migrated in the same year in the United States, where she lived in New York City. Your porcelain designs with the typical rolling lines were worldwide bestseller.