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Nora Evelyn Herz (born May 13, 1906 in Hipperholme , England ; † December 25, 1999 in London ) was a sculptor , ceramist and author who worked as a workshop partner of the Berlin painter and ceramist Emil Pottner and from 1934 as an employee of the HB workshops worked for ceramics .

Life

Nora Herz was born in Hipperholm ( Calderdale , West Yorkshire ) as the third of four children to pianist Maria Herz and her husband Albert Herz . In 1914 the family was visiting Cologne when the First World War broke out. Albert Herz was called up, the family stayed in Cologne. Here she grew up with her uncle, the Jewish lawyer Moritz Bing .

Nora Herz trained as a ceramist. In 1927 she established the contact between her friend Hedwig Bollhagen and the Cologne ceramist Margarete Heymann , who had founded the Haël workshops for artistic ceramics in Marwitz in 1923 with her husband Gustav Loebenstein . During this time, Nora Herz was friends with Margarete Heimann's brother, Fritz Heymann.

Nora Herz (1906–1999) making pottery in the pottery workshop, 1935
Herbert Sonnenfeld , 
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Jewish Museum, Berlin

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In 1931 Nora Herz worked for Gertrud Kraut , then in 1932 in a ceramic workshop in Adendorf . In autumn 1933, Nora Herz drew Hedwig Bollhagen's attention to the Haël workshops for artistic ceramics that were up for sale . After the National Socialists seized power, Margarete Heymann found herself increasingly exposed to personal attacks and denunciations as a Jewish entrepreneur and had to shut down her company in 1933 and, when no partner could be found, sold it to the functionary Heinrich Schild in 1934 . Schild hired Hedwig Bollhagen as artistic director of the newly established HB workshops for ceramics . Until 1937, Nora Herz worked from time to time on her sculptures in Hedwig Bollhagen's workshops in Marwitz.

Nora Herz, Siemensstadt 1935/6
Theodore Lux Feininger , 
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Nora Herz with the Lyonel Feininger family, Christmas 1935
Theodore Lux Feininger , 
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Nora Herz moved to Berlin in 1934, worked in a studio with the ceramist Emil Pottner , who had his stove in an old part of the city of Charlottenburg until the start of the war: "Nora Herz was drawn to Pottner because of her love of animal sculpture." Numerous photos by Herbert Sonnenfeld document the work in the joint studio in Charlottenburg, from which the small sculptures by Nora Herz, shown by HB workshops in the catalog in the product group "Figures", emerged: "Duck swimming" (F15), "Spatz" (F16), " Standing duck "(F17)," Zickchen "(F12)," Donkey "(F19)," Foal "(F18) and possibly the" Santa Claus "(F12, 4.5 cm high), which continues to be produced in series. The animal sculptures designed in Berlin were sold by the HB workshops and are still available today.

In the 1930s, the family of the painter Lyonel Feininger belonged to the Berlin circle of friends of Nora Herz and her mother Maria. Theodore Lux Feininger photographed Nora Herz several times in private surroundings.

Nora Herz emigrated to England in 1938 and worked in New York from around 1941 , showing her work in the Sculpture Center as part of New York Ceramic Art, receiving art awards and teaching at the Newark Museum of Art until 1955. She was in the 1950s permanent contributor to Ceramic Age magazine . She died in London on December 25, 1999 at the age of 93.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Women in Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , 1953
  • 148th Annual Exhibition , Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1953
  • Newark Museum Crafts Show, 1966
  • Jewish Women Ceramicists from Germany after 1933 , online exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Simone Ladwig-Winters: Expert opinion on the "Aryanization" allegations against Hedwig Bollhagen. Center for Contemporary History Potsdam, 2008, accessed on May 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jasmin Jouhar: Hedwig Bollhagen: clay, stone, heritage . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 1, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Susanne Wurche: Posthumous approach to Hedwig Bollhagen - the estate of the ceramicist in the Brandenburg State Main Archives. 2008, accessed May 1, 2019 .
  4. ^ Max Osborn , Exhibition Nora Herz, Aufbau, Vol. 11, November 9, 1945, No. 45, p. 23 for the exhibition at Galerie Neuf, 79th Street, Manhattan, NYC.
  5. ↑ http://objekte.jmberlin.de/person/jmb-pers-147596
  6. ↑ Nora Herz | Hedwig Bollhagen. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ http://www.terenchin.com/2012/09/09/nora-evelyn-herz-b-1910/
personal data
SURNAME Heart, Nora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heart, Nora Evelyn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hipperholme, England
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1999
Place of death London