Daniel ZULOAGA (Daniel Zuloaga Boneta)

Daniel Zuloaga – actually Daniel Zuloaga Boneta – is one of the first art ceramists or studio ceramists in Spain. His works are very diverse, there are very pitoresque ceramics by Daniel Zuloaga, including painted tiles and vases, as well as modern versions, especially in terms of colouring.

A ceramic mortar by the ceramist Daniel Zuloaga Boneta. A very beautiful studio pottery from the work of this studio ceramicist from Segovia, Spain.
Ceramic Mortar by Daniel Zuloaga

 
 
 
 

Short biography of Daniel Zuloaga

1852
born in Madrid, Spain

1867-1871
apprenticeship in porcelain manufactory Sèvres (Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres), France

1877-1893
works in the royal ceramics factory “Real Fábrica de La Moncloa” (with interruption)

– teaches at the Escuela Central de Artes y Oficios

1893-1906
opens own workshop (“Laboratorio”) in the stoneware factory La Segoviana in Segovia, Spain

1905
buys the Romanesque church ruins of San Juan de los Caballeros in Segovia.

1906
works in the Fábrica de Pasajes de San Juan, Gipuzkoa, Spain

1908
opens his own workshop in the restored church ruins of San Juan de los Caballeros, Segovia, Spain

from 1911
teaches at the Escuela de Cerámica de Madrid

1921
died in Segovia, Spain

 

About Zuloaga’s pottery

Around 1912, an exhibition of Zuloaga’s pottery took place in Madrid. In the accompanying exhibition brochure, Daniel Zuloaga’s style and aspirations are described thus:

“What Zuloaga avoids is vile imitation. The pupil of Sèvres, with all due respect, felt that the opposite should be done. One thing is crockery for eating made of unsightly materials and another thing is a decorative object that has no other purpose than to please the eye, and that is why Zuloaga is much more interested in earthenware than in porcelain, which, as has been said, is discredited by those great industries that flood all the shop windows of Madrid with ridiculous bisque porcelain as parodies of Sèvres, Sax, Berlin, Vienna, Chelsen, etc. which cannot enter the room of a person educated in the arts.” [1]

 

Exhibitions

 

Sources

[1] Cerámica artística de Daniel Zuloaga, Industria Artística de Cerámica en Segovia, Exposición en la Plaza de Oriente, 7 Bajo Dcha., Madrid, pp. 14-15.

Daniel Zuloaga Boneta, on the website of the Fundación Zuloaga, last accessed on 7.10.2022

Daniel Zuloaga (1852-1921), on the website of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava, last accessed on 7.10.2022

Zuloaga, al mejor postor, in: El Día de Segovia, 23.8.2020, last accessed on 7.10.2022

Abraham Rubio Celada: Tesis Doctoral: De la tradicion de la modernidad. Los Zuloaga Ceramistas, 2004 Madrid.

 

Works by Daniel Zuloaga

Below you will find various works by Daniel Zuloaga.