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Eva Zeisel (1906–2011)

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Born in Budapest in 1906, Eva Zeisel emigrated to the United States in 1938, after having designed glass and ceramics for factories in Berlin, Hamburg, and Russia, where she was appointed Artistic Director of the China and Glass Industry. During her distinguished career she has designed for toon meer companies including Schramberger, Lomonsov, Castleton, Red Wing, Hallcraft, Nambe, and KleinReid. Among her many awards and honors, she has received the Pratt Legends Award, the Russel Wright Award, Senior Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was the subject of a touring exhibition sponsored by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal. In 1999, the Metropolitan Museum of Art re-launched her Red Wing Town and Country line. She has taught courses in industrial design at Pratt Institute, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Royal College of Art, London. She lives in New York City. toon minder
Fotografie: Eva Stricker Zeisel turned 103

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Eva Zeisel on Design (2004) 29 exemplaren
On Design (2012) 5 exemplaren

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Gangbare naam
Zeisel, Eva
Officiële naam
Zeisel-Stricker, Eva Amalia
Geboortedatum
1906-11-13
Overlijdensdatum
2011-12-30
Graflocatie
New York, New York, USA
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
Hungary (birth)
USA
Geboorteplaats
Budapest, Hungary
Plaats van overlijden
New York, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen
Vienna, Austria
Hamburg, Germany
Leningrad, Russia, USSR
Switzerland
England, UK
Schramberg, Germany (toon alle 12)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Berlin, Germany
Hirschau, Germany
Moscow, Russia
Lübeck, Germany
New York, New York, USA
Opleiding
Royal Academy, Hungary (Painting)
Beroepen
designer
ceramic artist
Relaties
Weissberg, Alex (husband)
Zeisel, Hans (husband)
Polanyi, Karl (uncle)
Polanyi, Michael (uncle)
Koestler, Arthur (friend)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005)
Korte biografie
Eva Zeisel, née Striker, was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. Although many of her family became writers or scientists, Eva was attracted to art from a young age. At 17, she enrolled in the Hungarian Royal Academy of Fine Arts to study painting. She also apprenticed herself to a potter to learn ceramics. After graduating, she became the designer for a large German ceramics company, where she created playfully geometric designs, influenced by modern architecture. In 1930, she moved to Berlin, and got freelance design work, including for the Carstens factories. In 1932, she visited her fiancé, Alexander Weissberg, a physicist working in the Soviet Union, and they married in 1933. The couple separated about a year later and divorced in 1937. After several jobs in the Russian ceramics industry, Eva was named artistic director of the Russian Glass and Porcelain Trust. In 1936, while living in Moscow, she was arrested and falsely accused of plotting to assassinate Josef Stalin. She was imprisoned for 16 months, with a year spent in solitary confinement, and then deported to Austria. Details of her prison experiences were later included in Darkness at Noon, written by her childhood friend Arthur Koestler. A few months after Eva's arrival in Vienna, the Nazis invaded Austria, and she fled to England. There she married Hans Zeisel, a sociologist and legal scholar she knew from Berlin. The couple emigrated to the USA with only $67 between them. Her husband got jobs at New York University and the University of Chicago, while Eva re-established her career as a designer. She taught at Pratt Institute and worked for many years on projects and commissions in glass, wood, metal, and plastics. She is best known for her practical yet beautiful modern tableware. Her work is in permanent collections of major museums around the world, including the British Museum, MoMA, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her books included Eva Zeisel on Design (2004). In 2005, she received the National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Eva Zeisel: A Soviet Prison Memoir was compiled by Jean Richards and Brent Brolin and published posthumously in 2019.

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Memoir of Eva Zeisel's 16 months in a Soviet prison during the Stalinist purges. It includes poems written in prison, many of her NKDV case documents (original Russian copies and translations), photos from the time, maps of her travels in Russia, audio clips from later reminiscences, and video clips from her return in 2000.
 
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