Flame Red Bowl

Gertrud NatzlerWW-1945-143268

1945·Earthenware and glaze·9.9 × 20.3 × 5.1 cm (3 7/8 × 8 × 2 in.)

<p>Gertrud and Otto Natzler worked as a team for more than 30 years, forming a unified voice in their delicately thrown ceramics glazed in a riot of experimental colors and textures. Gertrud worked on a potter’s wheel to achieve her extremely thin vessels, while Otto developed the glaze formulas. They marketed their work as art objects and exhibited at world’s fairs, galleries, and museums, including an exhibition at the Art Institute in 1946, when this work entered the collection.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1945
Medium: Earthenware and glaze
Dimensions: 9.9 × 20.3 × 5.1 cm (3 7/8 × 8 × 2 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Gertrud Natzler

Artist

Gertrud Natzler

Ceramics

Gertrud Natzler was an American ceramicist known for glazed earthenware vessels of austere formal refinement. Working alongside her husband Otto from the 1930s onward, she developed a distinctive approach to clay form and surface that emphasized the inherent properties of glaze and material reduction. Her bowls and vessels, often finished in subtle matte surfaces, represent a modernist restraint that distinguished postwar American studio ceramics.

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