SUSI SINGER* (Vienna 1891 - 1955 Los Angeles)

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• Lot Description
  SUSI SINGER*
  (Vienna 1891 - 1955 Los Angeles)
  Elegant lady with rose, around 1925
  red fired, glazed, height 27.5 cm
  signed/scratched Werkstaette Susi Singer-Schinnerl., Gruenbach am Schneeberg. Majolica, polychrome, glazed. Engraved: SUSI SINGER.
  artist of the Wiener Werkstaette
  provenance: private collection Vienna
  
  ESTIMATE #Euro 1.000 - 1.500
  STARTING PRICE #Euro 1.000
  
  Susi Singer studied from 1905 to 1915 at the Art School for Girls and Women with Tina Blau, Adolf Boehm and Otto Friedmann. Josef Hoffmann brought her to the Wiener Werkstaette in 1917. The latter entered with the ambition of creating artistic crafts of high quality in all areas of everyday use - from furniture and architecture to porcelain, glass and fashion - in close contact between artist and consumer. It is the interdisciplinary claim to holistic penetration of all areas of life, as well as their forward-looking designs, with which the Wiener Werkstaette has written lasting design history. Its founder, the architect Josef Hoffmann, joined forces with the graphic artist and painter Koloman Moser and the industrialist and patron Fritz Waerndorfer in 1903 with the aim of establishing a marketable aesthetic counterposition to encrusted historicism. The customers were mainly artists and the up-and-coming Jewish upper and middle classes. Josef Hoffmann's acquaintance with Berta Zuckerkandl led to the first major commission: the Purkersdorf Sanatorium west of Vienna, planned by Viktor Zuckerkandl, Berta's brother-in-law. Among the WW staff were about a dozen women who were crucial to the stylistic shift from Art Nouveau to Art Deco in the 1920s, such as Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser, and Susi Singer. After joining the Wiener Werkstaette, Susi Singer first had to learn ceramic techniques, which is why Singer's first design was not accepted until 1919. She then rose to become one of the most productive and successful ceramists of the Wiener Werkstaette. Her focus was on figurative representation, either in a group ensemble, in combination with utility ceramics, or, from 1921, as an original individual figure. This expressively modeled "Elegant Lady with Rose" is one such figure. In 1925 Singer ventured into the large figure format: she presented a meter-high original ceramic at the "Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modernes" in Paris. After her marriage to Josef Schinnerl, Susi Singer founded her own ceramics workshop in Gruenbach am Schneeberg in Lower Austria in 1925, which she ran until her emigration to the USA in 1937.
  
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