Eva Zeisel

EVA ZEIZEL (Budapest, 1906-New York, 2011) for Schramberger Majolikafabrik.
"Bauhaus" liquor set, ca. 1928.
4 pieces in glazed ceramic.
Schramberger signature.
Measurements: 21,5 x 18 x 13 cm.

This liquor set consisting of a decanter and three glasses was designed by Eva Zeizel when she lived in the Black Forest region of Germany, where she worked for the Schramberger Majolikafabrik firm, between 1928 and 1930. As can be seen in the ensemble, she was inspired by the Art Deco style then in vogue to create a personal style where geometry dialogued with curvilinear principles that would later prevail in her work.

Eva Zeisel was an American industrial designer of Hungarian origin known for her work in ceramics, mainly from the period after her immigration to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and metaphors for human relationships. Zeisel's works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; New-York Historical Society, Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design and Museum of Modern Art, New York; the British Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bröhan Museum, Germany; as well as museums in Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Milwaukee and others in the U.S. and abroad. In the 1980s, a 50-year retrospective exhibition of his work organized by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Smithsonian Institution traveled throughout the United States, Europe and Russia. In 2004, the Knoxville Museum of Art organized a major retrospective exhibition "Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty", which subsequently traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta and the Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Washington D C.