Talk:Otto Natzler

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The statement, in the section on Later Life: "Nevertheless, Otto refused to glaze the last set of pots that she had thrown, until Reynolds finally convinced him near the end of his life" is not correct. Gertrud died in the Spring of 1971. In his own work in 1973, Otto Natzler wrote: "A fairly large number of pots thrown by Gertrude remained unfinished at the time of her death. Many of these had not even been bisque-fired. Though the firing and glazing has always been my contribution to our work, I found myself uable to attend to these until many months after.  We had shared the same workshop since our earliest collaboration in Vienna in the mid-1930s.  The thought of working in the deserted place where everything reminded me of this shared activity was unbearable.  For weeks I hardly entered the workshop.  When I finally did go back in the fall of 1971, I started working on mobiles, something I had done on and off for the past twenty years.  Not until late summer 1972 did I start ot handle Gertrud's work again." When this was written, Otto stated that the glazing of Gertrud's work would be a continuing process which would be completed within a year or two. Otto died in 2007, long after all that work was completed. Title: Form and Fire: Catalog of an exhibition of the Ceramics of Gertrud and Otto Natzler, 1939-1972 Renwick Gallery Exhibit, July 27 through October 22, 1973, Smithsonian Institution Press Publication Number 4858 Authors: Natzler, Otto & Renwick Gallery -- Komowkwa (talk) 01:52, 28 March 2010 (UTC)