Yoshiaki Inui
Born in 1927, Yoshiaki Inui graduated from and became professor emeritus at Kyoto University. Known as the leading researcher in the field of contemporary ceramics in Japan, he is author of a large number of works on the history of Western art and contemporary ceramics. Yoshiaki Inui served as the former president of the Kanazawa College of Art and was former president of the Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo. He is currently serving as the Japanese representative to the International Academy of Ceramics.
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YASUHISA KOHYAMA: The Art of Ceramics
Susan Jefferies
is an independent curator. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and the University of California at Davis, she had her first clay class with California Funk artist Robert Arneson. Jefferies established the modern and contemporary collections as well as a new gallery for the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Canada, and served as its curator for ten years. Notable exhibitions include: “Jean-Pierre Larocque: Clay Sculpture and Drawings”, “Bigger, Better, More: the Art of Viola Frey”, and “Clay Portraits: Gertraud Möhwald”. Her exhibitions of Canadian ceramics have traveled to various Asian and European countries.
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YASUHISA KOHYAMA: The Art of Ceramics
Love Jönsson
Curator at The Röhsska Museum for Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden. His articles, essays and reviews on contemporary crafts have appeared in numerous publications both in Sweden and abroad.
From 2005 to 2011, he was a visiting lecturer on the history and theory of crafts at the HDK School of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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FROM THE COOLEST CORNER
Alexander Koch (†)
Born in 1895, worked from 1920 at the family publishing house, Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, which was founded in Darmstadt in 1888 by his father, Alexander Koch. After the Second World War, Alexander Koch jun. became executive director of the publishing house, which had moved to Stuttgart in 1932. He ran the publishing house with his sister, Milly, until his death in 1969.
Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch earned widespread renown for the periodical Innen-Dekoration (founded in 1890), which is still published today as AIT – Architektur, Innenarchitektur, Technischer Ausbau.
Since, like his father before him, Alexander Koch jun. ran the whole show as publisher, general editor, editor and the author of books, his personality essentially moulded everything Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch published.
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MODERN LIGHTING
Dr. Michael Koch
After studies in art history, history and literary criticism research volunteer at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, followed by honorary fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart.
Consultant since 1982 at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. Head of the departments Sculpture and Painting since 1800, Arts and Crafts of Historicism and Jugendstil.
Research focuses (publications): Fine Art and Crafts of Historicism and Jugendstil , Painting of the New Objectivity.
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MEISTERWERKE DES JUGENDSTILS
Karl-Heinz Kohl
is professor of cultural and social anthropology at the Department of Ethnology and director of the Frobenius Institute at the University of Frankfurt am Main.
He has published extensively on the history of anthropology in the age of enlightenment and in the nineteenth century, on anthropological methods and epistemology and on the image of indigenous peoples in the West.
Another main focus of his researches is the study of kinship, myth and ritual based on his own ethnographic fieldwork in eastern Indonesia.
In 2005, he was elected as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science (BBAW).
Currently, he serves as the president of the German Anthropological Association (DGV).
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THINKINGJEWELLERY
Dr. Gabriela Koschatzky-Elias
Born 3 October 1958 in Vienna; Culture journalist
Curator of the Egon Schiele Museum in Tulln.
Member of the board for the Stiftung Erwin Ringel Institut
Jury member for the Walter Koschatzky Art Award
Translation and cultural journalism, handling of collections and compilation of catalogues.
Lecturing posts in Austria and Germany.
Curated several exhibitions including ‘Kunst der Frauen - Frauen der Kunst’ (Vienna - Salzburg - Klagenfurt, 2000), ‘Graphik Heute’ (Neuberg an der Mürz, 2000), ‘Kunst ist gleich Seele’ (Vienna, 2004), ‘Zur österreichischen Seele’ (Kufstein - Kaiserturm, 2006).
Numerous publications, lectures and exhibitions together with Professor Dr. Walter Koschatzky (+2003).
Most significant publications:
Melina Mercouri - Biographie eines Weltstars, Vienna 1995
Rudolf von Alt, Böhlau 2001, extended new edition together wirth Walter Koschatzky
FRITZ-MAIERHOFER
, ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers 2006
100 Jahre Alfred Proksch. Das grafische Werk, Amalthea 2009
Collaborations including:
'Österreichische Malerei der Zwischenkriegszeit – Die Sammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbank’, 2005.
'Geschichte der Bildenden Kunst in Österreich: Das 20. Jahrhundert’, 2002.
Email: gabriela.koschatzky@chello.at
Jack Lenor Larsen
internationally known textile designer, author, and collector, is one of the world’s foremost advocates of traditional and contemporary crafts. In addition to LongHouse Reserve, Mr. Larsen is also associated with schools and art centers worldwide. His awards include the American Craft Council Gold Medal, Cranbrook’s Founders Award, The Textile Museum’s Meyers Award, AIA Gold Medal, Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, and seven honorary doctorates. His designs can be found in museums and private collections around the globe.
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YASUHISA KOHYAMA: The Art of Ceramics
Wilhelm Lindemann
Wilhelm Lindemann, born 1949. Studies in philosophy, comparative literature and social work. Worked in Idar-Oberstein as curator for the exhibition programme ‘Idar-Oberstein schmückt sich’.
Since 2005 has curated the annual academic symposium ‘Schmuck-Denken – Unterwegs zu einer Theorie des Schmucks [Thinking Jewellery – On the Way Towards a Theory of Jewellery] held by the Trier University of Applied Sciences degree course in precious gemstones and jewellery design. Visiting lecturer for the theory of art at the Fachhochschule in Idar-Oberstein.
Publications:
Bernd Munsteiner – Reflections in Stone (ed.) Stuttgart 2004
Bengel Art Déco Jewellery – A Monument to Jewellery and Industry in Idar-Oberstein (ed.), Stuttgart 2007
Zeitgeist - Century of Idar-Oberstein Costume Jewellery (ed.), Stuttgart 2009
Thinking jewellery – A Theory of Jewellery (ed.), Stuttgart 2011
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MUNSTEINER. THE YOUNG GENERATION
BENGEL
BERND MUNSTEINER
THINKINGJEWELLERY
ZEITGEIST
Ekkehard Lippert (†)
had for many years archived written accounts and verbal accounts on earthenware in Lower Silesia and Lower Franconia.
The special interest encompassed –influenced not least by the work in the fields of social sciences and social pedagogy – the lives and labour situations of the ceramic manufacturers.
The results from this research were published as articles in several books and journals as well as in the 1986/88 exhibition catalogue Bunzlauer Geschirr – Gebrauchsware zwischen Handwerk und Industrie [Tableware from Bunzlau - Everyday Wares Between Craft and Industry], presented in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg.
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BUNZLAU CERAMICS
Inge Lippert
has for many years archived written accounts and verbal accounts on earthenware in Lower Silesia and Lower Franconia.
The special interest encompasses –influenced not least by the work in the fields of social sciences and social pedagogy – the lives and labour situations of the ceramic manufacturers.
The results from this research were published as articles in several books and journals as well as in the 1986/88 exhibition catalogue Bunzlauer Geschirr – Gebrauchsware zwischen Handwerk und Industrie [Tableware from Bunzlau - Everyday Wares Between Craft and Industry], presented in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg.
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BUNZLAU CERAMICS
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