Schramberger Majolikafabrik SMF - Eva Striker Zeisel - Plate (4) - Pottery - Artdeco

Four small signs featuring a geometric pattern designed by Eva Striker Zeisel.
Dated 1930
Handmade by Schramberger Majolica Fabrik, SMF, Germany.
Marked and dated at the bottom.
The signs show signs of wear related to age, in the form of small chips on the edges.

About Eva Zeisel:
Eva Zeisel was a Hungarian-American artist. Zeisel was born in 1906 in Budapest into a wealthy Jewish family. She mainly worked with ceramics. Her works are exhibited in the British Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She passed away at the age of 105.

In her hometown, she trained as a potter and worked in various factories. In 1928, she went to Hansa Keramik in Hamburg, shortly thereafter to the Schramberger Majolikafabrik, until she eventually switched to the Carstens group. In 1931, she worked for Hirschau (mostly from Berlin). Early 1932, like many leftist intellectuals, she moved to the Soviet Union, where she worked for the country's two largest porcelain/ceramic factories at Lomonosov (Saint Petersburg) and Dulevo (Moscow), but was imprisoned for a year and a half under the Stalinist regime. She ultimately emigrated via Austria to the United States, where she quickly established herself and became a star designer of glass, porcelain, and other materials. Many exhibitions took place before and after her death. Almost every major art museum in the United States has a collection of her designs.

Characteristic of her Schramberg designs are the strictly geometric shapes such as hemispheres and cylinders.