Maker/Artist
Natzler, Gertrud
Viennese ceramicist, 1908-1971, active in the United States
Viennese ceramicist, who worked collaboratively with her husband Otto Natzler. She would create clay forms and he would invent glazes for them. They began their ceramics workshop in Vienna, but relocated to Los Angeles, California when Austria was annexed by Germany under the Nazis in 1938. The couple worked together for 37 years until her death in 1971. Otto later glazed the 200 clay forms she left at her death.
