Description
Type: Studio Pottery
Design: Otto Lindig (* 1895, † 1966)
Carrying out: Studio Lindig
Object: Vase
Dimensions: Height: 14 cm, Diameter: 14.5 cm
Shard: light
Surface: The outer glaze is gray, beige, blue, green, white, turquoise, black; the interior glaze is red-brown; outer glaze is partially lava-like with craters and bubbles.
Year of manufacture: approximately 1940
Condition: Cracked at the lip, but stabilized with glue within the crack, minimal glaze loss at the crack on the inside of the lip; two inconspicuous cracks on the shoulder in the glaze; internal glaze has a few scratches and a few unglazed areas
Signature: OL„
Details:
This ceramic vase was thrown by Lindig’s co-worker Liebfriede Bernstiel, which can be seen on the two goose-feet right below the OL signature [1]. However, Otto Lindig did the glaze firing of the ceramics by himself [2]. He also undertook the glaze production [3]. The Bauhaus potter Otto Lindig was known mainly because of the shapings of his ceramics. The fact that Lindig was also interested in the effect of his glazes was long time disregarded [4]; that he has produced very effective glazes, is particularly evident in this vase, which is characterized by its partial lava-like structure.
A vase by Otto Lindig with similar glaze was sold at auction for 1000 euros [5].
Footnotes:
1. Weber, Klaus (ed.): Keramik und Bauhaus, Berlin 1989, p. 272.
2. Jakobson, Hans-Peter: Otto Lindig: „Im Grunde ist das Töpfemachen ja immer die gleiche Sache…“, in: Weber, Klaus (ed.): Keramik und Bauhaus, Berlin 1989, p. 53.
3. Erinnerungen Marieluise Fischers an ihre Lehrzeit bei Otto Lindig in Dornburg – Ein Interview, in: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel e.V., Träger des Keramikmuseums Bürgel (ed.): Otto Lindig, Die Dornburger Zeit, Gera 2010, p. 38.
4. Jakobson, Hans-Peter: Otto Lindig: „Im Grunde ist das Töpfemachen ja immer die gleiche Sache…“, in: Weber, Klaus (ed.): Keramik und Bauhaus, Berlin 1989, pp. 54-55.
