Paul Soldner Floor Pots

From fat necked bottles to figure stamped surfaces.

Paul soldner floor pots.

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

Most famously he developed american raku. Soldner hadn t planned to be an artist when he was young. He started out as a pre med student. 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.

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. See more ideas about ceramics raku american ceramics. Paul soldner who had no aspirations to become a ceramic artist started out making conventional pieces.

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.