Lucie Rie

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Dame Lucie Rie , DBE (* 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary as Luzie Gomperz , † April 1, 1995 in London ) was an Austrian - British potter .

biography

Vase, around 1971
Lucie Rie's workshop, exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum , London since 2009

Born in 1902 in Vienna as Luzie Gomperz into a middle-class Jewish family, she first studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule under Michael Powolny from 1922 to 1926. After graduating, she opened her own ceramic studio in her hometown.

When Austria was annexed to the German Reich in March 1938, she had to emigrate and moved to London, where she lived in the small street Albion Mews near Hyde Park from 1939 . After the end of the war, she opened a pottery and button workshop there, in which she produced hand-made ceramic pots. From 1946 the German emigrant Hans Coper also worked there . Both ceramists preferred to work with earthenware . In contrast to Coper's vessels, hers were less expressive, but perfectly precise and flawlessly delicate. She became known in the mid and late 1950s for its tea and coffee service. This production also enabled her economic security. In terms of shape and glaze, Rie was inspired by traditional Chinese and Japanese work. She often used raw glazes in which clay reacts with oxides in a single firing, which creates unusual surfaces. In the late 1940s she used sgraffito decorations .

Lucie Rie taught with Coper at the Camberwell School of Art from 1960 to 1971; In 1969 she received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art . She was honored with the OBE in 1968 and the CBE in 1981. In 1991 she was ennobled. After a series of strokes, she was forced to quit her job in 1990. In 1995 she died at her 18 Albion Mews home.

Lucie Ries pottery has received multiple awards and exhibited with great success. Her most famous creations are vases, bowls and tea sets, and she was mainly inspired by Japan. There are also other works such as buttons that she bequeathed to the Japanese designer and close friend Issey Miyake .

Ries's pottery studio, which has hardly changed since it was first established, has been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2009 .

Exhibitions

18 Albion Mews, former home and studio of Lucie Rie

Lucie Ries' first exhibitions in London took place in the Berkeley Galleries from 1949 , many of them in collaboration with Hans Coper. From 1954 she exhibited - individually or with Coper - in New York, Minneapolis, Gothenburg, Rotterdam, Arnhem, Hamburg and Düsseldorf as well as in several British galleries. Retrospectives were dedicated to her in 1967 by the Arts Council of Great Britain , the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1981. In April 1988, the Besson Gallery opened an exhibition of her creative period 1947–1988. In 1989, fashion designer Issey Miyake organized other important exhibitions of her work in Tokyo and Osaka ; An exhibition by the Crafts Council in London followed in 1992 . A joint retrospective with Hans Coper at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1994 was the last major exhibition during the artist's lifetime.

Even after her death in 1995, her work was presented to the public in renowned exhibitions, including a joint exhibition with Hans Coper at the Barbican Art Gallery in London in 1997 and an exhibition in her hometown of Vienna in the Museum of Applied Arts in 1999 . For the 100th birthday in 2002, exhibitions were shown in the Besson Gallery, the Shigaraki Ceramic Sculptural Park in Japan and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto. The first exhibition of her work in France took place in March and April 2008 at the Musée de Céramique in Sèvres. In February 2008 the organization English Heritage unveiled a “ Blue Plaque ” on their former London studio.

literature

  • Tony Birks: Lucie Rie: burnt earth . MAK - Austrian Museum for Applied Art, Vienna 1999, ISBN 1-899296-09-3 , p. 224 .
  • Tony Birks: Lucie Rie . Stenlake Publishing, Catrine 1998, ISBN 978-0-9517700-7-8 , pp. 224 (English).
  • Cyril Frankel: Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Contemporaries - The Lisa Sainsbury Collection . Thames & Hudson, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-500-97595-4 , pp. 240 (English).
  • Charlotte Fiell; Peter Fiell: Design of the 20th Century . Taschen, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8365-4107-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rie, Lucie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomperz, Luzie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British potter
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1995
Place of death London