Coupe (Footed Bowl)

1945–46

Gertrud Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–1971)
Otto Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–2007)
Los Angeles, California

Gertrud and Otto Natzler worked as a team for more than 30 years, forming a unified voice in their delicately thrown ceramics glazed in a riot of experimental colors and textures. Gertrud worked on a potter’s wheel to achieve her extremely thin vessels, while Otto developed the glaze formulas. They marketed their work as art objects and exhibited at world’s fairs, galleries, and museums, including an exhibition at the Art Institute in 1946, when this work entered the collection.

Status: On View, Gallery 265
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Gertrud Natzler
Title: Coupe (Footed Bowl)
Place: Los Angeles (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1945–1946
Medium: Earthenware and glaze
Inscriptions: Signed bottom, hand-lettered in black: "NATZLER"; exterior, paper label "#5312 /$35.00" [typed].
Dimensions: 6 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm (2 3/8 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Atlan Ceramic Club Fund
Reference Number: 1946.268

Richard F. Bach, Contemporary Ceramics of the Western Hemisphere, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1942), 12, cat. 63.
Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” “Shaping the Modern: American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago”, special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 2 (2001): 84–88, cat. 24 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 325-328, cat. 166 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary Ceramics of the Western Hemisphere, sponsored by the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 20–Feb. 23, 1942, cat. 63.
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Ceramics and Woodenware, exhibition of works by Maija Grotell, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, and James Prestin, Mar. 1–31, 1946.

Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, by Jan. 20, 1946 [Bach 1942, 12; incoming receipt R8693, May 24, 1946; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.

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