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1911 San Antonio, Texas - 2002 Alfred, New York. Known for: Porcelain pottery, painting, glass blowing.
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Rudolf Staffel (born 1911 San Antonio, Texas - 2002 Alfred, New York) was an American ceramic artist and arts educator. Initially he wanted to be a painter, and early on attended the School of the... Read full biography
Rudolf Staffel (born 1911 San Antonio, Texas - 2002 Alfred, New York) was an American ceramic artist and arts educator. Initially he wanted to be a painter, and early on attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there, an exhibition of Wiener Werkstätte at the Field Museum of... Read full biography
Rudolf Staffel (born 1911 San Antonio, Texas - 2002 Alfred, New York) was an American ceramic artist and arts educator. Initially he wanted to be a painter, and early on attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there, an exhibition of Wiener Werkstätte at the Field Museum of History, captivated him with its glass art. Staffel briefly moved to Mexico to study glass blowing, and while there fell in love with ceramics at The National Archeological Museum in Mexico City. His early... Read full biography
Rudolf Staffel (born 1911 San Antonio, Texas - 2002 Alfred, New York) was an American ceramic artist and arts educator. Initially he wanted to be a painter, and early on attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there, an exhibition of Wiener Werkstätte at the Field Museum of History, captivated him with its glass art. Staffel briefly moved to Mexico to study glass blowing, and while there fell in love with ceramics at The National Archeological Museum in Mexico City. His early ceramics were in a mid-century studio style, with traditional forms and glazes, although sometimes with social commentary and often with references to Native American, Asian and Scandinavian ceramic traditions. In the 1940s, he studied with Hans... Read full biography
Rudolf Staffel (born 1911 San Antonio, Texas - 2002 Alfred, New York) was an American ceramic artist and arts educator. Initially he wanted to be a painter, and early on attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there, an exhibition of Wiener Werkstätte at the Field Museum of History, captivated him with its glass art. Staffel briefly moved to Mexico to study glass blowing, and while there fell in love with ceramics at The National Archeological Museum in Mexico City. His early ceramics were in a mid-century studio style, with traditional forms and glazes, although sometimes with social commentary and often with references to Native American, Asian and Scandinavian ceramic traditions. In the 1940s, he studied with Hans Hoffmann in New York, who instilled in him a strong sense of "push/pull" pictorial content that would later come to maturity in his "Light Gathere... Read full biography
Rudolf Harry (Rudy) Staffel - Artist Info
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Keywords (12)
Art Method
- •Glassblowing, Glassblower
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Art Pottery
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Stoneware, Stone, Stonecut, Sandstone
Art Subject
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
- •Vessels, Vases
Art School
- •Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Ceramic Specialty