Yak

Vally Wieselthier

Wien 1895 - 1945 New York

Yak

Unique piece

Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, model number KO 5365

Red pottery, polychrome glaze

H 51 cm, L 42 cm

Residues of an old label

Hörmann WV-K 223
Old, professional restorations

Ausstellungen:

Vienna, MAK, Yearning for Beauty-The Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House, 2006
Vienna, Jüdisches Museum, Die bessere Hälfte. Jüdische Künstlerinnen bis 1938, 2016-17
Kaiserslautern, Museum Pfalzgalerie, "Vally Wieselthier - Golden Girls No. 2", 2022/23

Literatur:

Waltraud Neuwirth, Die Keramik der Wiener Werkstätte. vol. I: Originalkeramiken 1920-1931, Vienna 1981, ill. p. 103, no 5365 (design sketch)
Marianne Hörmann, Vally Wieselthier, Vienna 1999, ill. p. 127, no 11 and p. 246, WV-K 223
Exhibition catalogue "Yearning for Beauty-The Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House", ed. by Peter Noever, MAK, Vienna 2006, ill. p. 317
Exhibition catalogue "Die bessere Hälfte. Jüdische Künstlerinnen bis 1938", Jüdisches Museum, Vienna 2016-17, ill. p. 108