
Collection Online as of June 8, 2023
maker
(American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–1971)
maker
(American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–2007)
Earthenware with chartreuse glaze
4.5 x 14.3 x 14.8 cm (1 3/4 x 5 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2020.88
not on view
Getrud and Otto Natzler were two of the most important American artisan designers working in ceramics in the 20th century. They were both born in Vienna, Austria, where they began their careers absorbing the early modernist aesthetic of that city in the 1920s. The Natzlers adapted the Viennese Secessionist emphasis on the use of brightly contrasting colors in their early work such as this bowl with its chartreuse glaze.