RICHARD UHLEMEYER STUDIO POTTERY VASE

A striking asymmetrical midcentury vase with an organic form and a crackled turquoise reduction glaze of the type first developed and made famous by Paul Dressler in the 20s and 30s and by Richard Uhlemeyer in the 40s and 50s.  The sensual shape was both wheel-thrown and then hand-formed into an abstracted ewer with an integrated handle formed from the vessel's body.  Such abstract and organic forms were very popular in post-war Germany. RICHARD UHLEMEYER (1900-1954) was born in Göttingen, Germany, and attended the arts and crafts school in Hanover in the 1920s, where he studied sculpture with Ludwig Vierthaler, among others.  After completing his studies, he initially worked as a freelancer before founding a wholesale handicrafts business in 1930. Still, it was the pottery workshop he founded four years later for which he is best known.  The 'Kunsthandwerk Richard Uhlemeyer'ultimately gained national fame under his leadership. In addition to his work as an entrepreneur and craftsman,