Flame Red Bowl

1945

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

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: Flame Red 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.: 1945
Medium: Earthenware
Inscriptions: Written in ink or paint on bottom: "NATZLER" Natzler number: #6363
Dimensions: 9.9 × 20.3 × 5.1 cm (3 7/8 × 8 × 2 in.)
Credit Line: Atlan Ceramic Club Fund
Reference Number: 1946.270

Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Ceramics and Woodenware: A Special Loan Exhibiton of Ceramics by Maija Grotell of Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Gertrud and Otto Natzler of Los Angeles, and Woodenware by James Pestini of Chicago, Mar. 1–31, 1946.

With Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, by 1946; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.

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