NEWS ++ Ceramics from the Heiner Körting workshop 1950-1960 | KVOST SchauFenster | 01.08.-01.09.2024 - ART at Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen | Galerien | Museen | Galerieführer | Kunst

The KVOST SchauFenster presents vases from the 1950s and 1960s from Heiner Körting’s ceramic workshop. Beyond their functionality as utensils, they are also artistic objects. Dark in color and coated with a layer of engobe, they also feature a light brown pattern that is graphic but not rigid. This relationship of loose regularity is typical of Körting ceramics. The vessels are rectilinear, but based on organic forms, with an ornamental structure worked into the surface through incising or relief.

Heiner Hans Körting (1911 in Munich – 1991) took over the Bauhaus workshop in Dornburg in 1949. Lisa Körting (1926 in Merseburg – 2009) joined in 1955, after the two married, and had a decisive influence on the work in the workshop. Together they were among the leading ceramic artists in the GDR. The shape of the objects exhibited at KVOST was designed by Heiner Körting. The designs for the decoration of the vases, on the other hand, were …

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Image above: Ceramics from the Heiner Körting workshop / Photo: Valentin Wedde

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