Paul Soldner
Paul Soldner | |
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Born | Paul Edmund Soldner (1921-04-24)April 24, 1921 Summerfield, Illinois, US |
Died | January 3, 2011(2011-01-03) (aged 89) Claremont, California, US |
Alma mater | Bluffton College, University of Colorado at Boulder, Otis College of Art and Design |
Known for | ceramics |
Paul Edmund Soldner (April 24, 1921 – January 3, 2011) was an American ceramic artist and educator, noted for his experimentation with the 16th-century Japanese technique called raku, introducing new methods of firing and post firing, which became known as American Raku.[1] He was the founder of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in 1966.[2]
Biography
Paul Edmund Soldner was born on April 24, 1921, in Summerfield, Illinois, his father was a Mennonite preacher.[3] He served as a United States Army Medical Corps during World War II.[3] Soldner served in General George Patton’s Third Army during the Battle of the Bulge, and was awarded a Purple Heart.[3]
Soldner began to pursue a career in art upon returning to the United States after the Army, in 1946 he earned a degree from Bluffton College.[3] He continued his studies and received a MFA degree in 1954 from the University of Colorado.[1] Soldner then turned his attention to studying ceramics and initially focused first on functional pottery. In 1954, Soldner became Peter Voulkos' first student in the nascent ceramics department at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (now the Otis College of Art and Design).[2] As Soldner helped his teacher establish the program, he made several changes to the studio pottery equipment, which led to him founding Soldner Pottery Equipment Corporation in 1955, to market his inventions. He eventually held seven patents related to pottery equipment.[4]
After receiving his MFA degree in Ceramics in 1956, Soldner began teaching at Scripps College.[5] In the 1966, he founded Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado.[2][6] He was also involved in starting the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
He developed a type of low-temperature salt firing.[7] Along with Voulkos, Soldner has been credited with creating the "California School" of ceramic arts by combining Western materials and technology with Japanese techniques and aesthetics.[8]
While teaching at Scripps College, he organized the Scripps Ceramics Annual, a nationally recognized ceramic exhibition. In addition, as a result of his lifelong friendship with ceramic collectors Fred and Mary Marer, Scripps became the fortunate recipient of the extensive Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics. In 1990, Scripps received an NEA Grant to research and organize an exhibition titled, "Paul Soldner: A Retrospective,'" that travelled throughout the United States.
Soldner retired from Scripps in 1991. He lived and maintained studios in Aspen, Colorado, and Claremont, California. He died January 3, 2011, in Claremont, California.[3]
Awards
- 1992 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.[9]
- 2003 Honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts from Bluffton College, Ohio[10]
- 2008 Awarded the Aileen Osborn Webb Gold Medal by the American Craft Council, New York City, New York.[11]
Bibliography
- Nothing to Hide Exposures, Disclosures and Reflections Clay Times Inc., (2008) ISBN 9780981629612
- Kiln Construction American Craftsmen's Council (1965)
- Makers, A History of American Studio Craft by Koplos, Janet & Metcalf, Bruce; University of North Carolina Press, July 2010, ISBN 978-0-8078-3413-8, 544 pages, 409 color and 50 b&w photos, notes, index
Film and video
Year | Title | Type | Notes |
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2005 | Paul Soldner: Playing with Fire | documentary | Film was directed by Renée Bergan.[12] |
2000 | Paul Soldner, The Courage to Explore | documentary | |
1992 | Paul Soldner: Thrown and Altered Clay | documentary, school video | [13] |
1989 | Paul Soldner Thoughts on Creativity | documentary | Made by American Ceramic Society, Southern California Section Design Chapter, |
Collections and exhibitions
Soldner's work is included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.[3]
Work can also be found in the following galleries:
- American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California.[14] Paul Soldner's exhibition "Inferno" was featured for the opening of the museum in Sept. 11, 2004
- National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia
- National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
- Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
- Scripps College, Claremont, California.
- Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C..
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
See also
- Claude Champy, French ceramist who worked with Raku-ware
References
- ^ a b Steven Biller (2007). "Palm Springs Art | El Paseo Art Galleries | Paul Soldner | Palm Springs Life". palmspringslife.com. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
introducing unorthodox methods of firing and post firing
- ^ a b c Newby, Rick (2004). The Rocky Mountain Region. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-313-32817-6.
- ^ a b c d e f Grimes, William (January 8, 2011). "Paul Soldner Dies at 89 - Ceramist Created Sculptural Vessels". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
His work is included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts & Design.
- ^ Holly Bornemeier (2013). "Anderson Ranch Arts Center - News - In Memory: Paul Soldner, ceramist, artist, teacher, 1921-2011". andersonranch.org. Archived from the original on November 17, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ "art ltd. magazine". artltdmag.com. 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
Marsh considers Soldner's most significant artistic contribution, the invention of American raku, to be a truly remarkable innovation, both technically and aesthetically
- ^ Cooke, Edward S.; Ward, Gerald W. R.; L'Ecuyer, Kelly H.; Warner, Pat (2003). The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990. MFA Publications, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-87846-662-7.
- ^ Soldner essay
- ^ Makers, A History of American Studio Craft Chap.7, Voulkos and Soldner at Pages 224 - 231
- ^ "Paul Soldner Biography" (PDF).
- ^ "Paul Soldner on artnet". artnet.com. 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ American Crafts Council (2013). "Aileen Osborn Webb Awards 2008 | American Craft Council". craftcouncil.org. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ "Paul Soldner: Playing With Fire". Renegade Pictures. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ Hubbard, Tom; Hubbard, Lorry; McCurdy, Richard; Soldner, Paul; Crystal Productions (1992), Paul Soldner: thrown and altered clay : a retrospective., Aspen, Colo.: Crystal Productions, ISBN 978-1-56290-508-8, OCLC 179568634, retrieved 2021-02-03
- ^ "American Museum of Ceramic Art". AMOCA.org. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Oral history interview with Paul Soldner, 2003 April 27-28, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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