Edmund de Waal

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Edmund de Waal (2019)

Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal OBE , FRSA (born September 10, 1964 in Nottingham , England) is a British ceramicist , professor and author.

Life

Edmund de Waal is the son of the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral , Victor de Waal. De Waal's grandmother, Elisabeth de Waal, was born in 1899 into the Viennese Jewish family Ephrussi . She married the Dutchman Hendrick de Waal and traveled with him through Europe before arriving in England during World War II . Her grandson wrote the foreword to her novel Thursdays at Kanakis , which Zsolnay published in 2014 in German translation.

He graduated from King's School , Canterbury , before receiving a scholarship to study English at Trinity Hall , Cambridge .

De Waal learned the pottery trade while at school in Canterbury. So it was only logical that after graduating from Cambridge at Trinity Hall College he opened his own pottery in the west of England near the border with Wales . At the same time he learned the Japanese language at the University of Sheffield and received a two-year scholarship from the foundation of the Japanese stock brokerage company Daiwa Shōken Group Honda , which enabled him to work in the Mejiro Ceramics Studio in Tōkyō.

Rabbit with amber eyes netsuke , by Masatoshi, Osaka, approx. 1880, signed, made of ivory, amber, buffalo horn ( Ephrussi collection )

De Waal's ceramics are influenced by Japanese pottery, show simple shapes and muted colors. The moldings are mostly cylindrical porcelain pots with pale celadon glazes. His works are shown at Chatsworth House , Kettle's Yard , Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London . He lives and works in London. De Waal has been Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster in London since 2004 .

In 2010 de Waal's family story The Hare with the Amber Eyes: a Hidden Inheritance was published and in the same year it received the Costa Book Award in the biography category. The title refers to one of the 264 Netsuke figures that de Waal inherited from his great uncle Iggy (Ignaz / Ignace) Leo Ephrussi. The story depicts the life of his maternal ancestors, who from Odessa originating Jewish family Ephrussi , as Greek Sephardim were known by commercial and banking transactions throughout Europe, but then as Jews in the Nazi era were persecuted. In 2018 Edmund de Waal handed 170 netsukes on permanent loan to the Jewish Museum Vienna . In autumn 2019 he took part in the opening of an exhibition on the history of the Ephrussi family in this museum.

Honors and prizes

Exhibitions

Fonts

  • The White Road. A Pilgrimage of Sorts . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2015.
  • with Claudia Clare : The Pot Book. Phaidon, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-7148-4799-3 .
  • The Hare with Amber Eyes: a Hidden Inheritance. Chatto & Windus, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7011-8417-9 . Simultaneously with Straus and Giroux, New York City.
    • German: The hare with the amber eyes - The hidden legacy of the Ephrussi family. Translated by Brigitte Hirzensauer. Zsolnay, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-05556-8 . December 2011: ORF best list .
  • From Zero. Exhibition catalog. Alan Christea Gallery, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-9564876-0-5 .
  • 20th century ceramics. Thames & Hudson, London / New York 2003, ISBN 0-500-20371-7 .
  • with others: Timeless Beauty: Traditional Japanese Art from the Montgomery Collection . Skira, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-8491-088-9 .
  • New ceramic design. Guild Pub., Madison (Wisconsin) 1999, ISBN 1-880140-44-6 .

literature

  • Edmund de Waal. With photographs by Hélène Binet and essays by Jorunn Veiteberg and Helen Waters. Kettle's Yard / mimo 2007.
  • Constructions: ceramics and the memory of architecture / Constructions: ceramics and the memory of architecture. Galerie Marianne Heller, exhibition in Heidelberg 1999.
  • Bernard Leach / Edmund de Waal : Tate Gallery Publications, London 1997, ISBN 1-85437-227-0 .
  • Eckhardt Köhn: Pips, Ola and Walter Benjamin. Edmund de Waals' register of persons “The hare with the amber eyes” shows how small the spiritual world can be, in: FAZ No. 5, January 7, 2015, p. N3.

Web links

Commons : Edmund de Waal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tonspuren , orf.at , September 8, 2014
  2. ↑ The heartbreaking aspect of returning to Vienna in FAZ of January 28, 2014, p. 29
  3. ↑ 264 Compasses and a Track. In: FAZ . October 21, 2011, p. 33.
  4. ↑ Edmund de Waal Lichtzwang Modern & Contemporary ( Memento from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) khm.at, April 30, 2014 to October 5, 2014
  5. ↑ In the Bann des white gold in FAZ of September 23, 2016, p. 11.
  6. ↑ The long journey of the rabbit with the amber eyes. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. (FAZ) January 25, 2011, p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Waal, Edmund de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Waal, Edmund Arthur Lowndes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ceramist, professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham , England