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Lucie Rie (Lucie Gomperz) was born on 16 March, 1902 in Vienna, Austria, is an Austrian-British studio potter (1902–1995). Discover Lucie Rie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 16 March 1902
Birthday 16 March
Birthplace Vienna, Austria
Date of death 1 April, 1995
Died Place London, England
Nationality Austria

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1902

Dame Lucie Rie, (16 March 1902 – 1 April 1995) was an Austrian-born, independent, British studio potter working in a time when most ceramicists were male.

She is known for her extensive technical knowledge, her meticulously detailed experimentation with glazes and with firing and her unusual decorative techniques.

Lucie Gomperz was born in Vienna, the youngest child of Gisela and Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewish medical doctor who was a consultant to Sigmund Freud.

She had two brothers, Paul Gomperz and Teddy Gomperz.

1917

Paul Gomperz was killed at the Italian front in 1917.

She had a liberal upbringing.

1922

She studied pottery under Michael Powolny at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of arts and crafts associated with the Wiener Werkstätte, in which she enrolled in 1922.

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.

1925

She set up her first studio in Vienna in 1925 and exhibited the same year at the Paris International Exhibition.

She was influenced by Neoclassicism, Jugendstil, modernism, and Japonism.

1926

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.

For a time she provided accommodation to another Austrian émigré, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger.

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 Victoria and Albert Museum and as part of the Lisa Sainsbury Collection at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.

1937

In 1937, Rie won a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition (the exhibition for which Pablo Picasso painted Guernica).

1938

In 1938, Rie fled Nazi 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.

1946

In 1946, Rie hired Hans Coper, 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.

1948

Rie and Coper exhibited together in 1948.

1949

Rie had her first solo show as a potter in 1949.

1958

Coper became a partner in Rie's studio, where he remained until 1958.

1960

She taught at Camberwell College of Arts from 1960 until 1972.

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 Issey Miyake and bowls including her own egg cup which she gave to the publisher Susan Shaw.

1981

Their friendship lasted until Coper's death in 1981.

Rie's small studio was at 18 Albion Mews, a narrow street of converted stables near Hyde Park 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 Victoria and Albert Museum's ceramics gallery.

Rie was a friend of Bernard Leach, 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.

1982

Rie was interviewed in 1982 in her studio by David Attenborough, a great admirer of her work.

1990

She stopped making pottery in 1990, when she suffered the first of a series of strokes.

1995

She died at home in London on 1 April 1995, aged 93.

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 Museum of Modern Art in New York, the York Art Gallery in the UK, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and Paisley Museum in Scotland.

She influenced many during her 60 year career and developed very inventive kiln processing.