Otto DOUGLAS-HILL

1897
born in Beerberg, Silesia

1913-1916
apprenticeship as a sculptor

1920-1922
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin

1922
Foundation of a ceramics workshop

1922-1926
Takeover of the Oranienburger Werkstätten (Oranienburg Workshops)

1926/ 27
Foundation of the “Keramische Werkstätten Douglas-Hill” (Ceramic Workshops Douglas-Hill)

1929
Head of the ceramic testing department at the
Vereinigte Staatsschule für freie und angewandte Kunst
(United State School for Fine and Applied Arts);
there workshop community with Bodo von Campenhausen (painter)

1939
Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin

1948-1955
working in Santiago de Chile as a potter

1955-1962
in Berlin, among other things production of large sculptures

1962-1972
in Málaga, Spain, where he set up a pottery workshop

1972
died in Málaga, Spain

Source:
– Reineking v. Bock, Gisela: Keramik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Deutschland, München 1979, p. 128.

 

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