Hertha Bucher

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Hertha Bucher , née Hertha Elisabeth von Bucher , divorced Zopp, married Ulmenau (born June 14, 1898 in Leverkusen ; † February 9, 1960 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian ceramist and member of the Wiener Werkstätte artists' association .

life and work

Majolica relief Wandering Youth (1955), Angeligasse 18-18b in Vienna-Favoriten
Wall mosaic leisure activities (1953), municipal housing Josef-Haas-Hof in Vienna-Simmering
Wall relief hunting scenes (1958), Breitenfurter Straße 556 in Vienna-Liesing

Hertha Elisabeth von Bucher was born in Leverkusen as the youngest daughter of Gabriela (Ella) and the chemist Rudolf von Bucher. After completing school, she began studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1911 , where she worked with the painter and designer Franz Cižek , the architect Oskar Strnad (1914-16), the painter Adolf Boehm (1916-17) and the sculptor and among others Ceramicist Michael Powolny (1917-19) was taught. During his studies he specialized in the production of figures and vessels made of ceramics . Hertha Bucher, along with Hilda Jesser-Schmid and Fritzi Löw-Lazar, was one of the first to graduate from the School of Applied Arts, whose designs and products were sold by the Wiener Werkstätte artists' association from 1916 onwards. Shortly after completing her studies in 1919, she opened her own ceramics workshop in the house of the oldest oven workshop in Vienna.

On April 19, 1922, she married the bank clerk Ferdinand Zopp in Vienna. The marriage ended in divorce in 1924.

In addition to vases, large-volume vessels for gardens and staircases, coffee and tea services, chandeliers and ceiling lamps, Hertha Bucher designed tiled stoves, decorative grilles, ceramic heating and fireplace cladding and life-size terracotta figures for indoor and outdoor use. For the interior fittings of apartments designed by Josef Hoffmann or Liane Zimbler , she made ceramic cladding for heaters, chimneys and walls.

Hertha Bucher took part in numerous national and international exhibitions with her ceramic works. Her works were u. a. 1920 at the art show in Vienna, 1922 at the German trade show in Munich , 1924 at the anniversary exhibition of the Wiener Kunstgewerbeverein and in 1925 at the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris, 1927 at the European arts and crafts exhibition in Leipzig , 1928 at the summer exhibition of the Dresden Artists Association, shown in 1930 at the exhibition of the Austrian Werkbund and in 1938 at the exhibition of applied arts from Vienna and the Ostmark in the Grassi Museum in Leipzig. In 1925, she received a gold medal in Paris for her Stadtbild watch case , made in the Augarten porcelain factory .

After the Second World War , she concentrated on designs and executions of building ceramics, such as mosaics , reliefs , house signs and tiles for municipal buildings in Vienna. Her works are among others in Vienna-Floridsdorf (Jedleseer Straße 79-95), Vienna-Simmering (Rinnböckstraße 49-53; Josef Haas-Hof), Vienna-Favoriten (Angeligasse 18 / 18b) and Vienna-Liesing (Maurer Hauptplatz 11; Breitenfurter Straße 556; Dr.-Barilits-Gasse 2–4).

In the course of her life she worked with numerous renowned ceramic companies and porcelain manufacturers, such as Augarten, Goldscheider , Keramos , the Fesseler pottery factory, the Wienerberger brick factory , the Gmundener Werkstätte , the Rudolf Sommerhuber pottery factory (Steyr) and the majolica factory in Karlsruhe .

Hertha Bucher was a board member of the Austrian Werkbund and a member of the Viennese women's art . She has received numerous awards for her work, including a. Awarded the Eitelberger Prize in 1919 and the Alfred Roller Prize in 1942 .

Hertha Bucher died on February 9, 1960 in the Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna's 3rd district .

Works (selection)

  • Ceiling lamp, 1920
  • Cherubin with bowl , 1924 (Augarten)
  • Reclining girl with a tulip , 1924 (Augarten)
  • Tiled stove , R. Lorenz living room, 1924
  • Sitting officer , 1925 (Augarten)
  • Lamp base with weasel , 1925
  • Cityscape clock case , 1925 (Augarten)
  • Kitten , 1925 (Augarten)
  • Vase of squirrels and trees , 1925 (Augarten)
  • Lady with an umbrella, gentleman with a top hat , 1926 (Augarten)
  • Couple making music , 1925–1930
  • Bacchant and Bacchantin , 1926 (Augarten)
  • Kneeling female nude , 1920–1930
  • Cat , 1928
  • Tiled stove in Josef Hoffmann's city apartment, 1928
  • Kneeling woman with a jug , around 1930
  • Seated , 1930–1940
  • Lying deer , 1930
  • Art Deco tiled stove , 1920
  • Tiled stove Weinstube B. Kunz , 1936
  • Ceramic mosaic in a breakfast room in Berlin, Olympia 1936
  • Wall mosaic leisure activities , 1953
  • Ceramic relief with a view of Vienna , around 1955
  • Wall relief hunting scenes , 1958
  • Mosaic, house sign Dr. Barilits-Gasse 2-4, 1959
  • Mozart's visit to Mannheim , 19 ceramic plates, Mannheim

Literature (selection)

  • Franz Stanger: Ceramic works by Hertha Bucher . German art and decoration, year XXVI, January 1923, p. 223f.
  • Wolfgang Born: Hertha Bucher's ceramic work . In: German Art and Decoration, Volume XXXI, September 1928, pp. 398–404
  • Else Hofmann: New work by Hertha Bucher . In: German art and decoration: illustr. Monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art etc. artistic women's work, year XXXVI, July 1931, pp. 244–252
  • Elke Krasny: City and women. Another topography of Vienna . Metroverlag, Vienna 2008, p. 36
  • Gabriele Fahr-Becker: Wiener Werkstätte. 1903-1932 . Angelika Taschen (Ed.), Taschen, Cologne 2008, p. 222
  • Peter Autengruber & Ursula Schwarz: Lexicon of municipal housing in Vienna. Names. Monuments. Sights . Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt: Pichler Verlag 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Erika Korotin: BiographiA: Lexicon of Austrian women . Böhlau, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 452 .
  2. ↑ a b c Hertha Bucher - Biographies - eMuseum Museum of Design Zurich Archive Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  3. ^ Christian Witt-Dörring, Janis Staggs, Ronald S. Lauder, Renée Price, Paul Asenbaum: Wiener Werkstätte 1903–1932: the luxury of beauty . Prestel, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-7913-5716-6 , pp. 328 .
  4. ^ A b Franz Stanger: Ceramic works by Hertha Bucher . In: German art and decoration . tape 51 , January 1923, 1923, pp. 223 .
  5. ^ Else Hofmann: New works by Hertha Bucher . In: German art and decoration: illustrated monthly issues for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and artistic work by women . tape XXXVI , 1931, pp. 244 -252 .
  6. ^ Wilhelm Siemen, Claudia Lehner-Jobst, Thomas Miltschus, Thomas: The great manufactories: 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 . Ed .: Porzellanikon. Hohenberg ad Eger; Selb 2017, ISBN 978-3-940027-30-6 , pp. 21 .
  7. ^ The United Ateliers for Art and Ceramics by Marcell Goldscheider | Goldscheider ceramics. October 10, 2018, accessed on February 4, 2020 (German).
  8. ^ Christian Brandstätter, Daniela Gregori, Rainer Metzger: Vienna 1900: art, design, architecture, fashion . 1st edition. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7106-0109-5 , pp. 447 f .
  9. ^ Cityscape of Mannheim: Ceramic plates by Hertha Bucher. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bucher, Hertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertha Elisabeth von Bucher (maiden name); Hertha Zopp; Hertha Bucher-Zopp (first married name); Hertha Bucher-Ulmenau (second married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1960
Place of death Vienna