When Hungarian-born Eva Zeisel died in 2011 at the age of 105, she left behind a legacy as one of the most influential ceramic artists and designers of her generation. Her achievements, which include being the first woman industrial designer to have a solo show at MoMA in New York and founding the ceramic-industrial-design program at Pratt Institute, are even more impressive in light of her early struggles. Before emigrating to the U.S. in 1938, Zeisel endured a 16-month imprisonment in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign and an escape from Nazi-occupied Austria.
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