Thoma Grote
Doraline Marie Helene Countess Grote , called Thoma Grote (born April 22, 1896 in Breese ; † July 21, 1977 in Göddenstedt ), was a ceramist who helped set up the HB workshops for ceramics .
Life
Thoma Grote, born in 1896, studied at the Weimar Bauhaus , completed the preliminary course with László Moholy-Nagy together with Julius Tinzmann and was admitted to the Dornburg workshops of the Weimar Bauhaus in the Marstall in 1923 through the intercession of Charles Crodel by Gerhard Marcks .
From October 30, 1923 to March 1925, she was together with Otto Lindig , Wilhelm Löber , Karl and Max Krehan , Marguerite Friedlaender and Franz Rudolf Wildenhain, Herbert Hübner, Margarete Heymann and Renate Riedel at the Dornburg, then from 1925 at the Bauhaus Dessau .
In the summer semester of 1927 she had a study visit to the ceramic college in Höhr-Grenzhausen , and made the acquaintance of Hedwig Bollhagen , as well as a re-encounter with Marguerite Friedlaender.
From 1928 to 1931 she was an employee of the Velten plant of the Velten-Vordamm stoneware factory . Most recently she was involved in the development of paintable glazes for Charles Crodel for the painting of fireclay stoves for export to the United States, including for the German Building Exhibition in Berlin in 1931.
In 1932 she passed the master's examination in Berlin, presumably in the further development of painted fireclay ceramics , and became a member of the German Ceramic Society .
From 1932 to 1934 she worked for Helene Körting in the Oranienburger Werkstätten Körting KG with a focus on glaze development.
Since it was founded in 1934, she has been involved in setting up the HB workshops in Marwitz with a focus on: vessel development as well as glaze and color development. In 1938 Grote took over the sales force west in Düsseldorf until the car accident in 1950, Dietrich Harkort the field force east. Afterwards she dealt with vessel development for Gerresheimer Glas AG in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim.
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- ↑ Moholy-Nagy, Von Material zu Architektur, 1929, pp. 124–126, p. 133
- ↑ Thoma Grote, study based on the specific weight of different types of wood, MA 1929, p. 197
- ↑ Thoma Gräfin Grote, Barium nitrate in the production of enamel and glazes, Glashütte 63, 1933, No. 30, pp. 796–797
- ↑ Countess Thoma Grote and FH Zschacke, Can the examination regulations for medicinal jars according to the supplementary ordinance of July 2, 1931 of the DAB. VI to be used to assess a glass ?, Annual Reports on the Achievements of Chemical Technology 79, 1933, p. 345
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grote, Thoma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grote, Doraline Marie Helene Countess |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ceramist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Breese |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1977 |
| Place of death | Goddenstedt |