The Hungarian Potter Whose Fame Has Traveled the World
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- 27 Oct 2022
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Despite her Hungarian origins, Eva Zeisel is little known in Hungary, although she is a world-famous potter. After an international career spanning nearly nine decades and hundreds of completed designs, she died in New York in 2011, shortly after her 105th birthday. Her work will be with us for a long time to come, appearing not just in art markets, web-shops, and homes, but in the world’s most important private and public collections.
Eva Zeisel was born Éva Amália Striker in Hungary on November 13, 1906, into the prominent Striker-Polányi family of Budapest. Her grandmother was Cecile Wohl Polacsek, famous for her literary salon, while her mother was Laura Polányi, the first woman to graduate in Hungary.
Eva tried and excelled in several artistic disciplines: dancing, acting, and painting. In 1923, she was admitted to the Royal Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, where she was a student of János Vaszary’s. She later worked as a set designer and finally turned to pottery in 1925.
In 1925, she was officially accepted as a member of the Budapest Roofing, Stove, and Well-Making Craftsmen’s Association, and soon found work in the Gránit Factory. Read More...
