RARE EVA FRITZ-LINDNER STUDIO POTTERY CACHEPOT

An extraordinary vase/cachepot by Eva Fritz-Lindner. Hand-crafted work, marked with her workshop sign "i3" (not cast and not for Karlsruhe Majolika, but made and decorated by her own hand). Extremely rare! EVA FRITZ-LINDNER was a celebrated folk-art sculptor and ceramicist whose work is avidly pursued today by worldwide collectors. Born in Düsseldorf in 1933, she served as an apprentice at the Werkkunstschule—the applied arts training center—in Wiesbaden in Hesse for five years (1949-1954), and was a master student in Erich Kuhn's sculpture class for the final two. When she was, she was awarded the Grand Prix at a 1955 exhibition in Cannes: Five Millennia of German Ceramics. Soon after, Fritz-Lindner was hired as a master designer by the State Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe, where she was employed for nearly a decade, through 1963, becoming one of its most famous artists. Major accolades earned during this tenure were a 1958 Baden-Württemberg Arts Prize and the Silver Medal at the I