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Achermann, Michael (Brother)  

Swiss, 19th century, male.

Born in Tafers (Fribourg).

Sculptor.

He was a monk who lived as a hermit at St Theodule near Memberg around 1850. He submitted modelled clay figures to various Swiss exhibitions. It is not known if he studied sculpture before taking orders....

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Achtziger, Hans  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 8 March 1918.

Sculptor.

Hans Achtziger worked primarily as a sculptor in decorative work, tin glazed earthenware and porcelain.

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Acquaviva, Pietro Paolo  

Italian, 19th century, male.

Active in Naples at the beginning of the 19th century.

Sculptor, modeller (porcelain).

Four bisque medallions of the face of Napoleon are attributed to Pietro Paolo Acquaviva. He made them at the royal porcelain factory. Acquaviva was one of the artists who produced the decorations upon the return of the Bourbons to Naples. He was appointed a teacher of sculpture in ...

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Adams, Kc  

Canadian First Nations (Oji-Cree), 20th century, female.

Born 28 March 1971, in Yorkton (Saskatchewan).

Installation artist, ceramicist, photographer, sculptor, printmaker.

KC Adams studied at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, where she received her BFA in Studio Arts in 1998. Her artistic practice was further developed through artists’ residencies in Canada, at institutions in Banff, Charlottetown and Winnipeg. During her ...

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Adnet, Jacques and Jean  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 20 April 1900, in Chatillon-Coligny (Loiret); Jean died in 1995, Jacques died in 1984, both in France.

Painter, sculptor (including bronze/ceramics), decorative designer. Landscapes, figures, animals.

Jacques Adnet was an influential and important French designer, working during the height of the Art Deco movement, which first began just before World War I and continued through the 1940s. Jacques Adnet began his education with his twin brother, Jean, at the Municipal School of Design in Auxerre and later attended École des Arts Decoratifs in 1916, studying under architect Charles Louis Genuys. After graduating, Adnet honed his cabinetry and carpentry skills as an apprentice under French artist, architect, and designer Tony Selmersheim, and began working collaboratively with his brother, Jean. Their dual creations, most of which were furniture, were presented under a shared names as ‘J.-J. Adnet’. The twins exhibited their works at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes...

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Agaggio, d'  

French, 20th century, female.

Born 1937, in Nice.

Painter, sculptor, potter.

D'Agaggio lives and works in Antibes. She regularly exhibits in the USA and in France. One of her most notable exhibitions was in 1985, at the Orangery in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. The French government has commissioned several ceramic-sculpture monuments from her....

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Aïni, Philippe  

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 22 June 1952, in Bordeaux.

Painter (including mixed media), sculptor, potter. Stage sets.

At the age of 24, Philippe Aïni gave up his job as a pastry cook to become an artist, although he lacked any training. At first, he was supported and encouraged to exhibit by Jean-Pierre Roche of the Galerie Émergences in Bordeaux (...

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Albisola, Tullio d'  

Italian, 20th century, male.

Born 2 December 1899, in Albisola; died May 1971, in Albisola.

Ceramicist, draughtsman, painter, sculptor, screen printer, photographer. Artists' books.

Futurism.

Tullio d'Albisola studied with his father Giuseppe, a master potter, then with Gaetano Ballardini at the international university pottery class in Faenza, which he entered in ...

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Alegre, Ramon  

Spanish, 19th century, male.

Born in Valencia.

Sculptor.

Apprenticed to his father José, to whom he was an able assistant, Alegre is known for a terracotta Mercury, which earned him a silver medal at the national art exhibition in Madrid in 1850.

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Allard, J.  

French, 19th century, male.

Sculptor.

Allard exhibited a terracotta medallion at the 1892 Paris Salon.

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Almeida, Ignacia d'  

Portuguese, 17th century, female.

Born c. 1640.

Sculptor.

Daughter of the painter Luiz da Costa, Ignacia Almeida worked in wax and clay. A clay group representing The Death of the Blessed Virgin, in the church of St Roque in Lisbon, was attributed to her.

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Altri-Knodel, Manuela d'  

Swiss, 20th century, female.

Born in Zurich.

Sculptor, potter.

Manuela d'Altri-Knodel is the daughter of the sculptor Arnold d'Altri. She trained at a very young age in her father's studio in Zurich, then at art school in Colchester and the Scuola di Ceramica in Vietri. Her works appear in exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany and Italy....

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Amado, Jean  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 27 January 1922, in Aix-en-Provence; died October 1995.

Sculptor, ceramicist. Architectural integration, monuments.

Jean Amado studied drawing and painting from 1940-1941. He then joined the Resistance against the German occupation until 1944 - first in Aix, then in the department of Drôme. In ...

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Amantini, Tommaso  

Italian, 17th century, male.

Active in Urbino.

Painter, sculptor, potter.

Amantini studied in his native Urbino with Varsajo Bartoccini and subsequently lived in the home of Frederigo Gioja in San Sepolcro. In 1642, his brothers prevailed upon him to give up painting and open a pottery in Urbino. After the death of his father that same year, he gave up pottery to concentrate exclusively on painting. In ...

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Amberg, Adolf  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1874, in Hanau; died 1913, in Berlin.

Sculptor, worker in precious metals. Figures. Designs (ceramics/metal objects).

Jugendstil.

Adolf Amberg trained at the academy of fine arts in Berlin. He went to Paris and worked at the Académie Julian, exhibiting at the Salon of ...

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Andreoni, Orazio  

Italian, 19th century, male.

Sculptor. Figures, portraits. Busts.

A great number of Orazio Andreoni's works are owned by English and American collectors. He exhibited: Pharisee in Turin in 1884; two clay subjects, Black Woman and Moorish Woman in Berlin in 1892; and Messaline in Munich in ...

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Andresen, Emerich  

German, 19th century, male.

Born 20 February 1843, in Utersen (Holstein); died 7 October 1902.

Sculptor.

A pupil of Vivié in Hamburg and Hähnel in Dresden, Andresen became a teacher and ran the sculpture workshops at the royal porcelain factory in Meissen in 1886. Notable among his many works are ...

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Angeli Radovani, Kosta  

Croat, 20th century, male.

Born 6 October 1916, in London, of Croatian parents; died 27 February 2002, in Zagreb.

Sculptor (bronze/terracotta). Figures, nudes. Monuments.

Kosta Angeli Radovani studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan from 1934 to 1938, where he was advised by the sculptor Francesco Messina, and visited Czechoslovakia, England, France, Greece, Italy and the USA on study trips. In ...

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Angle, Beatrice  

British, 19th – 20th century, female.

Active in London.

Sculptor. Busts.

From 1885 to 1899, Angle exhibited busts and fantastical compositions in bronze or in clay in London and Liverpool. She showed her Young Venetian () at the Paris Salon in 1892.

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Antemann, Chris  

American, 21st century, female.

Born 1970, in Albany (New York).

Ceramicist, sculptor (porcelain), painter. Figures.

Chris Antemann gained her Bachelors of Fine Arts in ceramics and painting at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1997, later followed by a Masters in Fine Arts with a focus in ceramics at the University of Minnesota in 2000. Soon afterwards, Antemann embarked on multiple residencies, including one at the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in Jingdezhen in 2002, one of the foremost centres of ceramics in the world. She also spent a year-long National Endowment for the Arts-funded residency at the Wisconsin-based Kohler Factory and Arts Center from 2004 to 2005, and from 2019 to 2020 she was a visiting artist at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in St Petersburg, Russia. Antemann cultivated more than a decade-long partnership with the internationally acclaimed Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in Germany, where she collaborated to produce unique collections like her ...