Piowitt
| Piowitt
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| founding | around 1921 |
| resolution | after 1936 |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| management | Angela Piotrowska, Michael Wittmann |
| Branch | Arts , crafts |
Piowitt was an art ceramics workshop in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s . Her style is expressive in the taste of the time - grotesque .
history
Angela (Ella) Piotrowska-Wittmann was born on June 13, 1898 in Znojmo . She attended art school for women and girls for two years. From 1914 to 1921 she studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts , where her tutors were Oskar Strnad (1914/15), Adolf Boehm (1915/16), Josef Hoffmann (1916-18) and Michael Powolny (1919-21). Powolny is said to have said of Piotrowska: "She looked after the pottery with great taste" (1918); “Only worked vascular ceramics with plastic coverings” (1920); "Modeled on ceramic vessels" (1921). She also designed for the Viennese porcelain manufacturer Josef Böck .
In the 1920s, she and her husband, the artisan Michael Wittmann, founded a well-known workshop community in Vienna for vessels with three-dimensional editions and small ceramic animal sculptures, whose name is composed of the first letters of both surnames ( PioWitt ). In 1934 it was located in the eighth district of Vienna at Lerchenfelderstrasse 94/26.
Today the ceramics are sold at international auctions.
literature
- Waltraud Neuwirth: Viennese ceramics: Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Déco . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1974, ISBN 3-7814-0163-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Arthur Roessler (ed.): Austrian architecture and workmanship . Central Association of Architects in Austria, Vienna 1924, p. 292 .