ルーシー・リー
Lucie Rie
白釉青線文花生
Cylindrical vase with white glaze and blue inlaid lines
陶磁器
ceramics
W82xH163 mm
1970's
Mitochu Koeki Co.
ARTIST INFORMATION
ウィーンに生まれ、ウィーン工業美術学校で陶芸を学ぶ。若年時より国際的な展覧会において数々の賞を受賞し、作家としての地位を確立するが、第二次世界大戦の折イギリスへの亡命を余儀なくされる。ロンドンでは当時の先鋭的な建築やデザインの思潮とも響きあう独自の様式を確立していく。ろくろから生み出されるシンプルで凛とした器のフォルムに、ピンクや青、緑釉、また掻き落としなどの装飾を施し、エレガントで気品のある器の造形美を追求した。
Dame Lucie Rie was an Austrian-born studio potter. Her early incorporated the aesthetics of Wiener Werkstätte and Bauhaus Modernism. She emigrated from Nazi’s Austria to England in 1938, initially working in the glass buttons factory to make a living but later produced fine ceramic buttuns in her studio, where in 1946 the German-born war-emigre Hans Coper joined to work. With his help, she found her way to follow her own modernist style. Their strong friendship lasted until Coper’s death in 1981. She developed a wide range of glaze effects on both stoneware and porcelain. Her sophisticated, often brightly colored thrown pots are endowed with beauty beyond time and place. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of British Empire in 1991. Her work is in collections around the world, including V&A Museum and the York Art Gallery in UK, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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