KVOST SchauFenster

Ceramics from the Heiner Körting workshop
1950-1960

The KVOST window display is illuminated daily until 10 pm.

The KVOST SchauFenster displays vases from the 1950s and 1960s from Heiner Körting’s ceramics workshop. Beyond their functionality as objects of daily use, they are also artistic objects. Colored dark and coated with a layer of engobe, they have a light brown pattern that is graphic but not rigid. This relation of loose regularity is common for the Körting ceramics. The vases are clean-lined, yet reminiscent of organic forms, with an ornamental structure worked into the surface through incising or relief.

Heiner Hans Körting (*1911 in Munich – 1991) took over the Bauhaus workshop in Dornburg in 1949. Lisa Körting (*1926 in Merseburg – 2009) joined in 1955, after the two married, and had a decisive impact on the work in the workshop. Together they were among the leading ceramic artists of the GDR. The shape of the objects exhibited at KVOST was designed by Heiner Körting. The designs for the decoration of the vases, however, were created by Heiner and Lisa Körting. The vases are part of a broad, joint oeuvre of the Körtings, whose, especially later, practice reflected a versatility between decorative and architectural ceramics.

With kind support of Sammlung Jan Linkersdorff & Studio Galerie Berlin.