Eva Zeisel

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Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1906, she began her training at age 17 in traditional pottery techniques. She then moved to Germany where she acquired skills in all phases of industrial production and became one of the first to move the ceramic arts into contemporary mass production, creating beautiful useful objects for everyday living. Later after traveling in Russia she was imprisoned in solitary confinement having been accused of plotting to kill Stalin.

She was released to Austria which was soon to be merged with Nazi Germany. Luckily she was able to get to England where she married Hans Zeisel who had waited for her for eight years. In 1938 they went to New York where they settled permanently.

In 1939 she created the Department of Ceramic Arts and Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where she taught until 1952. Among her many awards was the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.