
Vally Wieselthier
Wien 1895 - 1945 New YorkVally Wieselthier was born in Vienna in 1895. In 1914 she started attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, initially the textiles workshop, then the specialist class for painting under Kolo Moser. In 1917 she changed to the specialist class for architecture under Josef Hoffmann and to the ceramics class of Michael Powolny. After setting up the artists’ workshops in the Wiener Werkstätte in the same year, Hoffmann hired Vally Wieselthier as a freelance employee. Mainly everyday, playfully treated pottery, was created under the influence of the artistic director Dagobert Peche. In 1922 Wieselthier founded her own workshop in Vienna and exhibited, among other things, ceramic sculptures at the ‘Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes’ in Paris in 1925. In 1927 Wieselthier returned to the Wiener Werkstätte and became head of the workshop for ceramics. After taking part in the ‘International Exhibition of Ceramic Art’ in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, she discovered the American market. In 1932 Wieselthier moved to New York for good, where she opened her own studio. In the first few years she worked closely with the Sebring Company and the Cowan Pottery in Cleveland, Ohio, whereby she exercised a unique influence on the American ceramics tradition. In 1945 Vally Wieselthier died of cancer in New York.
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Pair of Lampstands 1928-29
Yak 1921
Lampstand 1927
Fish Lampstand 1928
Two Lampstands 1927
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Large Centrepiece around 1924
Mirror 1928
Prater Souteneur with Prostitute 1928
Vase 1922-28
Woman with Book and Child 1927
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Centrepiece with Bird design around 1926
Female Head with Green Flower 1928
Bookend around 1926
Girl´s Head with Blue Outlined Eyes 1928
Girl`s Head with Pageboy 1928
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Centrepiece 1927
Female Head with Orange Flower 1928
Mirror with Masks 1928
Large Kneeling Figure with Flowertrousers 1927