Ceramic Review readers might be bemused to learn that the subject of the ninth volume in Eiderdown Books' Modern Women Artists series, which aims at uncovering 'all those women artists who have been hidden in plain sight,' is the internationally lauded Dame Lucie Rie (1902-1995). Her talent was recognised in 1923 when, while studying ceramics at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, the architect and designer Josef Hoffman, a co-founder and the head of the Viennese Werkstatte, displayed her first glazed pots in his Gesamtkunstwerk, the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. In 1937 Rie was awarded second prize at the Paris International exhibition, where Hoffman had displayed 70 of her works in the Austrian pavilion.
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