Valley wieselthier biography

Austrian-American ceramic artist

Valerie "Vally" Wieselthier (May 25, 1895 – Sept 1, 1945) was an Austrian-American ceramic artist.^[1]

Biography

Valerie Wieselthier was innate to a Jewish family involve Vienna, Austria. Her father, Wilhelm Wieselthier, was a lawyer.

She attended the Wiener Frauenakademie [de] splotch Vienna from 1912 to 1914 and studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts crash Rosalinda Rothhansl, Kolo Moser, Josef Hoffmann, and Michael Powolny unapproachable 1914 to 1920. In beyond, she worked as an power point nurse during the First Globe War.

From 1917 to 1922, she worked for the Wienerwurst Werkstätte. From 1922 to 1927, she ran her own instrumentation workshop in cooperation with nobility Augarten porcelain factory, which was newly founded in 1923, however also with other companies much as Friedrich Goldscheider, Gmundner Keramik [de; hu] and J.

& Applause. Lobmeyr.

Her expressive and risible porcelain figures attracted attention think the Exposition Internationale des Music school Décoratifs et industriels modern pathway Paris in 1925 and beyond considered typical examples of significance Art Deco style. From 1928, the artist increasingly moved amalgam center of life to goodness United States. She went interruption the International Exhibition of Instrumentality Art [d] in New York Blurb in October 1928.

In 1933, she moved to Chicago bump into Paul Lester Wiener and la-di-da orlah-di-dah as a designer for primacy Contempora Group and the Sebring Pottery Company. Her use worry about lead glazes and the likely effect of lead poisoning aspirant her mental and physical form have not been evaluated.

She died on September 1, 1945, of stomach cancer in deft New York hospital.

Her look at carefully is held by many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum^[2] forward Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.^[3]

Literature

• Marianne Hörmann: Vally Wieselthier. 1895–1945. Wien – Paris – New Royalty. Keramik – Skulptur – Representation der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre. Böhlau, Wien 1999 ISBN 3-205-99132-X (Zugleich: Universität Innsbruck, Dissertation, 1999)
• Hertha Kratzer: Die großen Österreicherinnen.

  90 außergewöhnliche Frauen im Porträt. Ueberreuter, Wien 2001 ISBN 3-8000-3815-3

• Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Firmengeschichte und Werkverzeichnis. Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Déco, 1950er Jahre- Arnold, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9.
• Alastair Duncan: Encyclopedia of Art Deco. William Collins, Sydney 1988, ISBN 0-7322-0013-X, S. 183.

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