The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Bottle (H325)

1956
maker

Gertrud Natzler

(American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–1971)
maker

Otto Natzler

(American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–2007)
America
Earthenware with Moleskin glaze?
height: 16 x 11.1 x 11.1 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2020.90
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Gertrud and Otto Natzler emigrated to the United States from Austria in 1938 to escape the onslaught of Nazi terror.

Description

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. This bottle represents the mature phase of their work in the 1950s when they were experimenting with avant-garde glazes.
  • ?–2008
    ?-2008
    2008–2020
    Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2020–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.90