Gertrud Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–1971)
Otto Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–2007)
Los Angeles
Teardrop Bottle
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Gertrud Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–1971)
Otto Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–2007)
Los Angeles1963
Teardrop Bottle
Gertrud Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–1971) Otto Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–2007) Los Angeles →Modernismstudio potteryAmerican Arts and Crafts Movementbottleearthenware
Date
1963
Medium
Earthenware and glaze
Dimensions
25.1 × 11.1 × 10.8 cm (9 7/8 × 4 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Francis Clow Thayer, Alschuler Philanthropic Fund, and Mary Louise Womer
Gertrud and Otto Natzler’s artistic relationship was highly collaborative: Gertrud created the forms of their earthenware pieces, while Otto formulated and applied the dramatic glazes. The couple’s dignified Teardrop Bottle epitomizes the harmonious synthesis between form and glaze that the Natzlers so often achieved. The brown, smoky gray, and mottled yellow tigereye glaze fuses with the graceful form of the body, which Otto described as “ascend[ing] slowly upward with a slight curve, as if turning onto itself, only to change direction faintly just before ending.”
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