Marguerite FRIEDLAENDER-WILDENHAIN (1896-1985)

from 1910
lives in Berlin

1914
A-levels at boarding school in Folkestone, United Kingdom

– Studies wood sculpture and drawing at the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts

From 1916/1917
Decorative painter at the Rudolstadt porcelain manufactory

1919
Studied at the State Bauhaus in Weimar

1922
Completion of apprenticeship in the Bauhaus ceramics workshop in Dornburg/ Saale under Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan

bis 1925
Works in the ceramics workshop of the Bauhaus in Dornburg

from 1925 to 1929
Head of the ceramics department at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Arts and Crafts in Halle

1926
Master craftsman’s examination; start of wrapping his own range of ceramics

1929
Head of the porcelain workshop at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Arts and Crafts in Halle; start of collaboration with the Staatliche Porzellan­manufaktur Berlin (KPM), for whom she designed the ‘Hallesche Form’ coffee, mocha and tea service in 1929, which was exhibited at the Leipzig Trade Fair in 1930.

1933
Emigration to the Netherlands due to the National Socialists coming to power and

– Establishment of her own pottery ‘Het Kruikje’ (The Little Jar)
in Putten near Amsterdam (Netherlands), together with her husband Franz Rudolf Wildenhain, where several employees were employed

1940
Emigration to the USA without her husband due to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands

– From 1940 to 1942 head of the ceramics workshop at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, USA

1942-1949
Works at the ‘Pond Farm’ artists’ colony in Guerneville, California, USA

1949
Separates from her husband Franz Rudolf Wildenhain (who lived in the USA from 1947)

– Founds her own ceramics workshop: ‘Pond Farm Pottery’; Friedlaender-Wildenhain also ran ceramics courses there until her death

1985
died in Guerneville, USA