Studio Ceramic Vase with Incised Symbol and Line Decoration by Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen, Germany, 1963

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An early, graphically designed ceramic vase by Gerhard Liebenthron (1925-2005), one of the leading figures of North German studio ceramics. … Read more An early, graphically designed ceramic vase by Gerhard Liebenthron (1925-2005), one of the leading figures of North German studio ceramics. Liebenthron founded his own workshop in Bremen in the 1950s, where he developed a modern, graphically reduced formal language before his work became more rustic and earthy in later years.

The vase displays his typical early style: a simple form with a surface in shades of brown, adorned with a hand-incised graphic symbol and line decoration featuring abstracted motifs such as a cat, cow, bird, head, and fish. This clear, almost archaic ornamentation corresponds to the contemporary modes of representation characteristic of modernism.

A rare, collector's piece from the early Bremen workshop phase of this influential German ceramicist from the Bremen studio ceramics scene, which formed around the art school and Böttcherstraße. This piece has an attribution mark,
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