Terms and conditions of use
Covered punch bowl
(1926)
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- (a-b) 21.1 × 33.7 × 25.0 cm (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- Germany
- Inscription
- incised in base u.l.: (stylised design)
incised in base u.l.: OL (monogram) (underlined) - Accession Number
- 2004.781.a-b
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The L. W. Thompson Collection Bequest, 2004
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Otto Lindig joined the Bauhaus as a sculptor in 1919 before moving to the school’s ceramics workshop at Dornburg, near Weimar, in 1920. He made prototypes for industrial mass production, his bold, reductive forms reflecting the simplicity of modernist functional ceramics, suitable for slip casting rather than the more labour-intensive wheel throwing. Lindig became technical and then business director of the workshop before the Bauhaus school moved to Dessau in 1925. He chose to stay at the Dornburg pottery workshop, which became part of the new Weimar state architecture school, where he worked as a teacher and director until 1930. This large covered punch bowl was produced by Lindig during his time at the school and is the only known example of this form.
