Liebfriede BERNSTIEL

1915
born in Hamburg, Germany

– in childhood she collected illustrations of vessels by Otto Lindig and Auguste Papendieck.

1933-1934
student at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg; ceramics class of Max Wünsche

1934
failed attempt to start as Auguste Papendieck’s apprentice, as the latter did not accept apprentices on principle

1934-1937
does an apprenticeship in pottery with Hubert Griemert at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle an der Saale

1937
passes the journeyman’s examination

1939-1946
works for Otto Lindig in Dornburg

1944
passes master craftsman’s examination

1947-1948
assistant to Gerhard Marcks and Sigfried Möller at the State School of Art in Hamburg

1948
develops a tea service together with Gerhard Marcks

1949-1955
assistant to Otto Lindig at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg

1952
birth of their daughter with Otto Lindig

1955
foundation of her own workshop in Ahrensburg near Hamburg

ab 1956
abundant architecture-related work, less time for vessel production

– in the 1960s she started to produce polygonal vessels, fired at 1280 °C, partly unglazed

– from the 1970s she began to reshape the walls of the turned vessels with the mallet

1998
died in Ahrensburg, Germany

Sources:
Reineking v. Bock, Gisela: Keramik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Germany, München 1979, p. 95.

Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel und Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt e. V. : Liebfriede Bernstiel zum Hundertsten … im Anfang war Dornburg. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name. Bürgel, 2015. pp. 2, 12-14, 18-20, 22, 23, 26, 29.

 

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