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124: 204: 331: 280:, a fellow emigre, a young man with no experience in ceramics, to help her fire the buttons. Although Coper was interested in learning sculpture, she sent him to a potter named Heber Mathews, who taught him how to make pots on the wheel. Rie and Coper exhibited together in 1948. Coper became a partner in Rie's studio, where he remained until 1958. Their friendship lasted until Coper's death in 1981. 303:, one of the leading figures in British studio pottery in the mid-20th century, and she was impressed by his views, especially concerning the "completeness" of a pot. But despite his transient influence, her brightly coloured, delicate, modernist pottery stands apart from Leach's subdued, rustic, oriental work. She taught at 252:. During and after the war, to make ends meet, she made ceramic buttons and jewellery for couture fashion outlets. Exactly matching ceramic buttons to the colours of the clothing to which they were to be attached stimulated Rie's experimentation and accuracy with glazes. Some of these buttons are now displayed at London's 310:
She received several awards for her work and exhibited with great success. Her most famous creations are vases, bottles and bowls, which drew some inspiration from Japan as well as many other places. There are other works such as buttons, which she bequeathed to her close friend the Japanese designer
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Austria and emigrated to England, where she settled in a small mews house in London where she lived and had her studio for the rest of her life. Around the time she emigrated, she separated from Hans Rie, a businessman whom she had married in Vienna in 1926, and their marriage was dissolved in 1940.
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While in Vienna, Lucie's uncle from her mother's side had a collection of art that inspired her interest in archeology and architecture. She was first inspired by her uncle's Roman pottery collection which had been excavated from the suburbs of Vienna. She set up her first studio in Vienna in 1925
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in London. She invited many people to her studio and was renowned for giving her visitors tea and cake. The studio remained almost unchanged during the 50 years she occupied it and has been reconstructed in the
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opened in 2009. She was awarded the title of Dame Commander (DCE) after teaching at the Camberwell School of Art from 1960 until 1971. In 2023, a major exhibition of Rie's work was held at the
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in Scotland. She influenced many during her 60 year career and developed very inventive kiln processing. Her studio was moved and reconstructed in the new ceramics gallery at the
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Rie's work has been described as cosmopolitan. She is best remembered for her bowl and bottle forms. Her pottery is displayed in collections around the world, including the
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were male. She is known for her extensive technical knowledge, her meticulously detailed experimentation with glazes and with firing and her unusual decorative techniques.
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She stopped making pottery in 1990, when she suffered the first of a series of strokes. She died at home in London on 1 April 1995, aged 93.
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Lucie Gomperz was born in Vienna, the youngest child of Gisela and Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewish medical doctor who was a consultant to
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Rie was interviewed in 1982 in her studio by David Attenborough, a great admirer of her work.
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For a time she provided accommodation to another Austrian émigré, the physicist
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Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United Kingdom
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and bowls including her own egg cup which she gave to the publisher
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interviewed on working with Lucie Rie in London in the 1970s
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Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie & their Contemporaries
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Justine Olsen, curator of Decorative and Applied Arts at
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1937 Silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition
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Lucie Rie: The Life and Work of Lucie Rie, 1902–1995
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Rie had her first solo show as a potter in 1949. 1351:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire 556:"The Lucie Rie Archive at the Crafts Study Centre" 191:, a school of arts and crafts associated with the 899:"Sir David Attenborough Remembers Dame Lucie Rie" 415:Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1312: 527:"Lucie Rie: A refugee's great pottery showdown" 998:"Bowl, Lucie Rie (English, 1902–1995) c. 1980" 1156:Lucie Rie and Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel 709: 149:) was an Austrian-born, independent, British 914: 912: 896: 742:"Hans Coper: A Modernist Potter (1920-1981)" 408:Commander of the Order of the British Empire 287:, a narrow street of converted stables near 165: 792:British Studio Ceramics in the 20th Century 656: 789: 577: 575: 573: 395:Officer of the Order of the British Empire 207:Lucie Rie's workshop, as exhibited in the 43: 16:Austrian-British studio potter (1902–1995) 1188:, University of East Anglia Press, 2002. 1173:, Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd., 2002. 909: 216:and exhibited the same year at the Paris 1199:"Dame Lucie Rie, 93, Noted Ceramicist", 897:Attenborough, David (5 September 2017). 790:Gowing, Christopher; Rice, Paul (1989). 329: 202: 122: 1292:Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 1025:"Earthenware shallow bowl by Lucie Rie" 842: 570: 524: 223:In 1937, Rie won a silver medal at the 178:in 1917. 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Kunstgewerbeschule
Studio pottery

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studio potter
ceramicists
Sigmund Freud
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Michael Powolny
Kunstgewerbeschule
Wiener WerkstÀtte

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International Exhibition
Paris International Exhibition
Pablo Picasso
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Erwin Schrödinger
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Hans Coper
Albion Mews
Hyde Park

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