Emilie Schleiss-Simandl

_{Rothenburg 1880 - 1962 Gmunden}

Emilie Simandl was born in 1880 in Rothenburg. From 1904 until 1908 she studied at the School for Applied Arts in Vienna, where she already implemented her own model designs in figural sculpture and engraved vessels in ceramic technique. In 1908 she participated successfully in the Viennese Kunstschau (Art Show). Emilie Simandl married Franz Schleiss, the founder of “Gmundner Keramik“. A long-term cooperation was the result, in which Emilie Schleiss-Simandl created numerous models for “Gmundner Keramik“ and later for the “Vereinigte Wiener und Gmundner Keramik“ (United Vienna and Gmundner Ceramics). Above all she made numerous figures in folk dress (gold cap crinolines, etc.), but also other figural models.