Lucie Marie Rie

wikipedia & the web: . Lucie was a famous potter and received OBE and CBE for her work. In 1.1.1990 the Queen awarded her the DBE (Dame of the British Empire). She was refereed to under the title of "Dame Lucie Rie".

She studied at the Wiener Werkstatte, Vienna’s avant-garde arts and crafts studio, and by the late 1903's had won several prizes. Her student work was first shown at the Palais Stoclet in Brussels in 1923. She is resident in London since 1938. A retrospective exhibition at the Arts Council in 1967 was followed by a major exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, in 1981 and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1982, and the BBC film with David Attenborogh the same year. An exhibition her work opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2.1995.

One of the UK's most well known potters of the 20th Century with works in major museums and collections.

"Die Familie Wolf" - by Ernst Wolf 1924 - http://www.fpe.ch/stammbaum/ see no. 302

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Note: Lucie Rie archive by Sophie Heath ..The Ries British visas were sponsored by Theo Frankel, 2nd of 4 sons in a well-off Jewish Viennese family.. ..Birks notes that Hans Rie worked hard on behalf of fellow refugees while in England, writing letters and providing food and shelter from the Rie quarters.. OR Dame Lucie (Gomperz) Rie famous for her pottery work OR Pottery Studio OR Dame Lucie Rie & Hans Coper pdf. Hans Rie was a young businessman, working in the Brüder Böhm hat factory. He was one of the Gomperz family circle, an easy-going man, but with little in common with his wife, beyond a fondness for skiing. The marriage never really took and Lucie Rie devoted herself increasingly to her work. She also became close with the architect Ernst Plishke giving him one of his first commissions designing furniture for her apartment. By 1938, Ries refusal to take seriously the 'stupidity' of Nazism was no longer tenable. She and her husband escaped to England, intending to move on to the United States. Her decision to stay in London, alone, determined the course of the rest of her life and work. She moved into a house in Albion Mews, Bayswater, where Ernst Freud an architec, son of Sigmund adapted the interior for the Plischke furniture, she had brought with her. Hans Rie went on to America and the couple were amicably divorced. Lucie remained a good friend of her sister in-law Gertrude Böhm & her family. - see Lucie Rie Amazon books

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