Otto Natzler

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Otto Natzler (born January 31, 1908 in Vienna ; † April 7, 2007 in Los Angeles ) was an Austro-American ceramic artist .

Life

Otto Natzler was the son of the marriage of the Vienna-based dentist Sigmund Natzler and his wife Regina Frieda Natzler, born in Vrádište , Slovakia . Lowy. He married Bertha Steinmetz in Vienna in 1930. After divorce, he married the artist Gertrud Amon (1908–1971) in 1934. He had four siblings.

The married couple Otto and Gertrud "Trude" Natzler had their first successes as artists in Vienna in the 1930s. After Austria was annexed to the German Empire, they emigrated to the USA. There they were already able to win first prize at a ceramic exhibition in Syracuse, New York State, in 1939. Her work was shown in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1940 . Numerous other exhibitions overseas and Europe followed.

His wife Gertrud died of cancer in 1971; Otto married the artist Gail Reynolds. With her he realized works based on models from his deceased wife. The Natzlers' work comprises around 25,000 pieces. The Jewish Museum Vienna , together with the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna (today: Wien Museum ) and the American Craft Museum in New York, honored the artist couple Otto and Gertrud Natzler with a comprehensive retrospective in 1994.

literature

  • Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler: Ceramics by Gertrud and Otto Natzler. Museum of Applied Arts 1959
  • Ori Z. Soltes: Earth, Fire, Water and Wind: The Ceramics of Otto Natzler. , Bnai Brith Books 1992, ISBN 978-1-881456-01-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d "Otto Natzler, ceramics master, dies at 99" , The Seattle Times , April 22, 2007 (English)
  2. ↑ Greenwood Cemetery: Natzler , findagrave.com, March 15, 2015 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Natzler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2007
Place of death los Angeles