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Peter Siemssen, a creative businessman, is the driving force behind this entirely personal publication – a book informed by profound knowledge of the subject as well as passion. Siemssen presents a selection of works from his collection against a backdrop of decades of experience and encounters with the most important contemporary ceramicists. Arranged geographically, the book presents Japanese, German, Scandinavian, Western European, North American and Mediterranean ceramics. The high point is the work of Gilbert Portanier, with whom Peter Siemssen has particularly intensive artistic contacts and ties of friendship. Documentary photographs faithfully reproducing the works lead into interpretative texts, artist biographies and Peter Siemssen’s entertaining reminiscences to provide access to art ceramics in the latter half of the 20th century. Distinguished specialists in the field contribute high-profile essays on various aspects of the subject. One of the best collections of top-quality contemporary studio ceramics worldwide! Artists (a selection): Gilbert Portanier (France) Karin Bablok (Germany) Hans-Theo Baumann (Germany) Antje Brüggemann-Breckwoldt (Germany) Nino Caruso (Italy) Antoni Cumella (Spain) Elisabeth Fritsch (England) Dorothy Hafner (USA) Shoji Hamada (Japan) Bernhard Leach (England) Stig Lindberg (Sweden) Sonngard Marcks (Germany) Renée Reichenbach (Germany) Lucie Rie (England) Ursula and Karl Scheid (Germany) Tatsuzo Shimaoka (Japan) Björn Wiinblad (Denmark)

In 1948, Gilbert Portanier, a painter, discovered clay as a material to work with at Vallauris, the ceramics centre in the south of France. There he developed his unique style in the medium. What is so significant about his early work is his mastery of drawing on pottery. In the early years, Portanier “drew” with the brush on his pieces mainly Arcadian genre scenes inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity. On the look-out for new colour combinations, colour textures and colour compositions, however, Portanier gradually distanced himself from drawing and switched to free painting on ceramics. “Every one of his pieces belongs in a museum,” thus Picasso commenting on Gilbert Portanier’s “painterly ceramics”. And indeed Portanier, like no other, conjures colourful, surrealist abstract-figurative paintings on the ceramics he has designed. In his pieces, the “Mediterranean delight” in representing and communicating comes into its own. The inexhaustible riches of Portanier’s teeming imagination are unique in the international ceramics scene, a status that has been justly rewarded with -numerous international prizes and awards and is now being showcased in this comprehensive monograph. A vibrantly colourful monograph focusing on the production of this decade by the French grand master of ceramics. -Featuring informative essays written with great empathy by internationally known ceramics specialists

Lotte Reimers’ passion for ceramics began in 1951, when she joined Jakob Wilhelm Hinder, who was travelling through West Germany with a comprehensive exhibition of ceramics. Hinder and Reimers regarded as their major task the didactic introduction for visitors to the ceramic arts. The grand exhibition tour only came to an end in 1961 at Deidesheim near Mannheim. Here Lotte Reimers continued her activities in museums and galleries with great effect in Germany and abroad. In 1993, the collection of the museum was taken over by the federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz and is now known as the Hinder-Reimers Collection of the Land Rheinland-Pfalz.
Lotte Reimers’ own artistic contribution began in 1965, amidst her engagements with museum and gallery work. Over almost forty years she created an impressive ceramic œuvre.
This is the first extensive publication about the work and life of Lotte Reimers, who made a great contribution for the ceramic arts in Germany not only through her long-time enthusiastic activities as a museum head and gallery owner, but also through her own ceramic creations.
 

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Edmond Lachenal and His Legacy documents the shifting styles of this important French ceramicist and also his contemporaries. With over 183 colour plates, the publication extends not only to the work of his master, Theodore Deck but also includes pieces by some of his disciples, his sons Raoul and Jean-Jacques Lachenal, and his assistant Emile Decoeur.
This first ever presentation of Lachenal's career includes scholarly essays, period photographs and thoughtful detailed catalogue descriptions of each of the 71 pieces represented. Placing the work of Lachenal in context with his peers and followers reveals not only the rich artistic culture in which Lachenal lived and worked but also the series of subtle transitions that evolved in French ceramics from the middle of the 19th century until after the Second World War.
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George Ohr (1857-1918) was the most revolutionary art potter of his time. Working in the relative isolation of Biloxi, Mississippi, around the turn of the century, he transformed symmetrical wheel-thrown pots into unprecedented abstract configurations, nearly half a century before the nonrepresentational ideas of the Abstract Expressionists took hold. As an artist, Ohr's goal was to make no two pieces alike. Furthermore, he fulfilled the ideal of the Arts & Crafts movement by doing all of his own work - from digging the clay to firing the kiln. Ohr's eccentric forms and flamboyant personality led to his being dubbed The Mad Potter of Biloxi, but in fact he was an American icon of creativity. Today, his unique works are highly regarded and sought out by collectors and museums all over the country.

This exquisitely designed volume contains over 300 unpublished works by Ohr, and features all new photography accompanied by an accessible text. The clarity and number of illustrations will make this book the new essential reference on this extraordinary artist.

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This 24x29 cm sized book contains 320 pages with 570 coloured illustrations and 75 black and white illustrations. This comprehensive book contains the entire edited ceramic works Picasso created in Vallauris from 1947 to 1971. The edition process, the different signatures and marks used by the pottery are illustrated and described.
Each piece is accurately described: date of creation by Picasso, sizes, creative process, colours and number of copies produced.