Behind the website ROBERT ZÜBLIN is, who would have thought it: Robert Züblin. So that’s me, Robert Züblin, who puts so many pottery pieces and meanwhile also a few paintings on the web here. Many pieces are still available for purchase, others have already been bought and are marked accordingly. The pieces are all located in Zurich and are therefore sent from Switzerland.
How I came to pottery
For almost 10 years now I have been dealing with studio pottery and masterpieces made of ceramics. It all started at a flea market in Berlin (Germany), where I sold, among other things, vases, bowls and dishes especially from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, which were actually only design pieces, i.e. factory goods from mass production.
After I went to the flea market on the Straße des 17. Juni in Berlin a few times (the first Berlin flea market, by the way) to offer my design pieces, an older gentleman approached me at some point and told me that they were all quite nice ceramics, but real pottery looked different. He was referring to studio pottery and masterpieces by ceramists such as Richard Bampi, Jan Bontjes van Beek, Gusso Reuss or the Hohlt studio. The older gentleman turned out to be the expert on German studio pottery between the wars and became my mentor for the next few years, from whom I learned an enormous amount about studio pottery; whether it was how to look for a good piece, how to tell if a piece is thrown or built, how to check if a piece is cracked or how to identify pottery signatures, for example. In retrospect, I can’t imagine a better education than at that flea market, where I met my mentor on a weekly basis. Of course, I also met many other experts and collectors at the 17th of June flea market who shared their knowledge with me.
In order to offer studio pottery beyond the borders of Germany (and now Switzerland), I had decided to set up an online shop, on whose website you are now. I hope you enjoy browsing and I would also be happy for you if you decide to buy a piece: