German, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in Neuss.
Potter.
Barthelmess was a student at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1923 and he subsequently ran a pottery studio there. From 1927 he worked as an architectural ceramicist and potter in Düsseldorf where he taught at the Academy from ...
Dutch, 20th century, male.
Born 21 July 1920, in Amsterdam.
Painter (gouache), sculptor, potter, watercolourist, draughtsman. Figures, portraits, flowers, animals.
Groups: International Situationist, CoBrA, International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus.
Having studied at a school of industrial art and at the fine arts academy in Amsterdam between 1940 and 1942, Constant began his career as a painter with works described as 'experimental' from 1945. In 1947, he joined the short-lived Surréalisme Révolutionnaire movement, as a result of which he met the Dane Asger Jorn. In 1948, he wrote the manifesto of the experimental Dutch group based in Amsterdam in the form of the magazine ...
Danish, 20th century, male.
Active also active in France.
Born 3 April 1914, in Veirum or Vejrum (Jutland); died 1 May 1973, in Aarhus.
Painter (including gouache/mixed media), watercolourist, collage artist, sculptor, lithographer, potter, draughtsman. Designs for tapestries.
Groups: International Situationist, CoBrA, International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus...
(b Berlin, Feb 18, 1889; d Burgbrohl, nr Cologne, Nov 13, 1981).
German sculptor, potter, draughtsman and printmaker. He first sculpted animals while studying under Richard Scheibe (from 1907), and in 1910 modelled animals for the Schwarzburg Porcelain Factory. After World War I his interest in classicism gave way to the influence of Expressionism and of the Sturm artists, as part of a search for a new spirituality. This new style of work can be seen in Woman Suckling (gold-plated limewood relief, 1919; Bremen, Marcks-Haus). Walter Gropius, who founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919, asked Marcks to establish a ceramics workshop for the school in the nearby village of Dornburg. With his students he set out to create a Bauhaus ceramics ethic of simplicity and honesty of design as determined by the materials used and the function of the object. In stylistic terms he combined geometry with a local pottery tradition. He was also inspired by Lyonel Feininger to make woodcuts of rural genre themes....
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1 September 1896, in Weferlingen; died 1976, in Rome.
Painter, engraver.
Max Peiffer-Watenphül trained in weaving and pottery at the Bauhaus from 1919 to 1921, later taking up painting in Salzburg, where he lived most of the time. He went on study trips to France, Italy, the Balkans, North Africa, Cuba and Mexico. He won the Prix de Rome in 1931. From 1946 to 1958 he lived in Venice and produced a great many paintings of this city. He taught at the Folkwangschule in Essen, at the textile technical college in Krefeld and at the school of applied arts in Salzburg. He became a member of the Bavarian academy of science and art in Munich in 1965....
