Marguerite Wildenhain
Marguerite Friedlaender (M. Friedlaender wild grove ) ( born October 11, 1896 in Lyon, † 24 February 1985 in Guerneville, California ) was a German - British ceramist and designer porcelain. Their influence on the design of the ceramic arts and crafts school Giebichenstein lasted decades.
Life
Descended and raised by a German father and an English mother in France, determined their origin to their lifestyle, she was citizen of the world. From 1919 to 1925 Marguerite Friedlaender, was at the Bauhaus, first she had an apprenticeship, after which she worked in the pottery of the Bauhaus in Dornburg / Saale with Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan. It was there Workshop Master.
From 1925 to 1933 she taught at the School of Applied Arts Giebichenstein in Halle ( Saale). She headed the ceramics department and developed in 1927 a private school program, from 1929, she was the newly decorated porcelain workshop before. At the same time they started cooperation with the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin. For KPM she designed, inter alia, In 1929, the coffee and tea service, " Hall ", which was presented in 1930 at the Leipzig Fair.
In 1930 she married the ceramicist Franz Rudolf Wild grove. In 1933, she was dismissed because of her Jewish origin, Halle and Berlin had to leave and emigrated first to the Netherlands; In 1940 she went to the USA. There she was from 1940 to 1942 head of the ceramics workshop of the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. From 1942 to 1949 Marguerite Friedlaender worked in the artists' colony " Pond Farm " in Guerneville / California. 1949, separated Marguerite Friedlaender and Franz Rudolf Wild grove. It came to the resolution of the " Pond Farm ".
She then founded his own ceramic workshop, the " Pond Farm Pottery ", in which she worked a formative until her death.
Portrait
- Charles Crodel: The potter Marguerite Friedlaender, Berlin Secession, 64th exhibition: artists among themselves. Painting. Plastic. March / April 1931, No. 9 ( Publications of the art service No. 57)