Paul Soldner Floor Pots

Paul soldner was born in summerfield illnois on april 24 1921.

Paul soldner floor pots.

At otis soldner explored creating monumental floor pots or sculptures which stood up to eight feet in height often with expressionistically painted areas on the forms. This exhibition will cover the entire scope of soldner s ceramic career from his early straightforward pieces to experimental floor pots of enormous size and scale. He started out as a pre med student. Soldner hadn t planned to be an artist when he was young.

Paul soldner is known for his raku fired vessel forms monumental floor pots and his technological contributions to the field of ceramics. At otis soldner explored creating monumental floor pots or sculptures which stood up to eight feet in height often with expressionistically painted areas on the forms. Paul soldner american raku wood fire vase expressionist vintage art pottery vessel floor pot sculpture pacificfineart 5 out of 5 stars 11 1 699 99. Sep 22 2019 explore dawn adams s board paul soldner followed by 388 people on pinterest.

From fat necked bottles to figure stamped surfaces. While this process is most commonly understood as a low fired smoked ceramic ware soldner defined it as an evolving art form and an understanding of the. It was also at otis that he designed and ultimately began the manufacture of the soldner potters wheels and clay mixers that became soldner pottery equipment inc. Most famously he developed american raku.

His medical aspirations waned after being drafted into the army and serving as a medic for three and a half years during world war ii.