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Bottle (H325)

Gertrud NatzlerWW-1956-011675

1956·Earthenware with Moleskin glaze?·height: 16 x 11.1 x 11.1 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in.)

Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer

Catalogue

Year: 1956
Medium: Earthenware with Moleskin glaze?
Dimensions: height: 16 x 11.1 x 11.1 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
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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