Dina Kuhn

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Dina Kuhn , actually Berhardine Kuhn (born April 26, 1891 in Vienna , † May 28, 1963 in Schierbach ) was an Austrian ceramist and craftswoman . She worked for the Wiener Werkstätte and the Waechtersbacher Keramik .

life and work

Dina Kuhn was born on April 26, 1891 in Vienna as the daughter of the railway inspector Franz Kuhn. Her older brother Franz Bernhard (* 1889) later became a well-known architect and craftsman.

After completing her school education, she began eight years of study at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in 1912 . Her teachers included u. a. the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann , the painter and designer Franz Čižek , the painter and graphic artist Kolo Moser , the architect Oskar Strnad and the ceramist Michael Powolny . During her training, Dina Kuhn designed ceramics for the Wiener Werkstätte , which she joined as a member in 1917. By 1922 she had created around 100 designs for ceramic figures, wallpapers and fabric samples for the artist community. She made numerous ceramic wall reliefs for Oskar Strnads Edelraum der Österreichische Werkstätten at the German Trade Show that took place in Munich in 1922 .

In 1923 she founded her own ceramic studio, the Kunstkeramische Werkstätte Dina Kuhn, together with her brother and Emanuel Iskra . She designed ceramic chimney cladding, tiles, stoves, lamps and vases and worked closely with the Iska stove factory to make them. In the mid-1920s, Dina Kuhn also designed ceramic objects for the Friedrich Goldscheider factory , the Augarten porcelain factory and for the Bimini glass factory founded in 1923 .

In 1925, she was awarded a silver medal for her designs at the Exposition Internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels moderne in Paris . In 1926, the Bimini company decided to expand its production to include handicraft ceramics. They set up a ceramic studio in Neu Titschein near Ostrau , which Dina Kuhn took over as artistic director until 1937. The repression of the National Socialists against Jewish entrepreneurs forced the owners of the Bimini company, August and Josef Berger and Fritz Lampl to emigrate . Dina Kuhn left Neu Titschein and made first contact with the Waechtersbach ceramics factory in 1937, where she had worked as a decorator and modeler since 1938. In August 1940 she finally moved to Schlierbach. Some designs from the Viennese creative period were later also executed by in Wächtersbach.

After the Second World War , Dina Kuhn retired from professional life. She died on May 28, 1963 in Schlierbach.

Dina Kuhn was a member of the Association of Austrian Female Artists and of Viennese Women's Art .

Works (selection)

Woman's head 'water'
, 
glazed ceramic
36.9 cm x 19.7 cm cm
Cleveland Museum of Art

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(please note copyrights )

Centerpiece
, 
glazed ceramic
8.2 cm x 23.2 cm
Dorotheum , Vienna

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painted wall plate (around 1940)
, 
glazed ceramic
Waechtersbach

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Dina Kuhn's artistic work is mainly characterized by small figurative ceramics and large ceramic sculptures. In addition, numerous designs for tiles, stoves, ceramic decorations for crockery and wall plates have survived. In the early 1920s she also made fabric samples and wallpapers as well as commercial graphics for the Wiener Werkstätte.

Her works are now shown in arts and crafts and design museums at home and abroad, such as the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna , the Museum of the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory , the Museum of Design Zurich , the Cleveland Museum of Art , the Everson Museum of Art or the museum of Fine Arts Boston

Ceramics and porcelain

  • Melancholy (1917)
  • Choleric (1917)
  • Sanguine (1917)
  • Phlegmatic (1917)
  • Florian (1917)
  • Lusthaus (1919)
  • Adam and Eve (1923)
  • Papagena lamp base (1923)
  • Harmonica player (1923)
  • Pierrot on a ball (Augarten, 1924)
  • Frauenkopf The Water (1924/25)
  • Butterfly catcher (Augarten, 1925)
  • Bookends Gnome (1925)
  • Bookends Pegasus (1925)
  • Mythical animal (cactus vessel, 1925)
  • Vase carrier (1930)

Exhibitions

Dina Kuhn's ceramic objects have been shown at numerous factory shows and domestic and foreign exhibitions, including a .:

  • Art show, Vienna (1920)
  • German Trade Show, Munich (1922)
  • Exhibition of modern arts and crafts, Vienna (1923)
  • Dagobert Perche Exhibition (1923)
  • Anniversary exhibition of Viennese applied arts (1924)
  • Exposition Internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modern, Paris (1925)
  • Christmas Show, Wiener Kunsthaus (1926)
  • Exhibition of Austrian applied arts, Essen (1927)
  • Traveling exhibition International Exhibition of ceramic art , New York a. a. (1928/29)
  • International Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Monza (1930)

In addition, she regularly took part in the exhibitions of the Wiener Werkstätte, the Association of Austrian Women Artists and Wiener Frauenkunst.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Bernhard Kuhn. Architekturzentrum Wien, accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ MAK Collection: Dina Kuhn - Winnetou wallpaper. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ MAK Collection: Dina Kuhn - fabric design. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Dina Kuhn - Icon of expressionist Viennese ceramic art. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  5. ^ Claudia Lehner-Jobst; Thomas Miltschus: The big manufacturers: Augarten Vienna. Golden Twenties Swinging Fifties: an exhibition in the Porzellanikon - State Museum for Porcelain in Hohenberg an der Eger from May 20 to October 3, 2017 . In: Wilhelm Siemen (ed.): Writings and catalogs of the Porzellanikons . tape 122 . Hohenberg ad Eger; Selb 2017, ISBN 978-3-940027-30-6 , pp. 22nd f .
  6. ↑ Dina Kuhn: 12-piece mocha service for the Wiener Werkstätte. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  7. ^ Dina Kuhn: tea service. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Head: The water. The Cleveland Museum of Art, October 31, 2018, accessed February 16, 2020 .
  9. ^ Dina Kuhn The Water - Wiener Werkstätte & The Vienna Secession - Catalog - Lillian Nassau LLC. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Dina Kuhn: Spring 1919. Retrieved on February 16, 2020 (English).

literature

  • Waltraud Neuwirth: Viennese ceramics, historicism, art nouveau, art deco . Vienna 1974
  • Ulrich Berting (Ed.): Figurative work and plastic earthenware: Wächtersbacher Steingut , Brachttal 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Dina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernhardine Kuhn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ceramist and craftswoman
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1963
Place of death Schierbach