Susanne Petzold

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When graphics meet porcelain...

Equipped with a minimalist color palette, Susanne Petzold provides her white porcelain objects with powerful brushstrokes and precise lines. Whether art object or everyday object - the works of the winner of the Dießen Ceramics Prize 2024 are imbued with a poetic lightness that is definitely worth admiring.

 

Susanne Petzold's main areas of work well explained:

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Glaze

Glaze is a glass-like layer which, from a purely functional point of view, is mainly used to provide the porous shards underneath (term for a fired ceramic mass) with a waterproof, dense coating.

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Engobe

Engobe refers to a mixture of finely slurried clay liquefied with water, which is applied to raw or also bisqued ceramic workpieces for decoration.

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Electric kiln

Thanks to its modern technology, the electrically powered kiln is a relatively safe firing method that can be used to fire at high temperatures.

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Stoneware

Designation for ceramics which, with or without glaze after the firing process above 1200° C, has a hard, solid and dense body (term for a fired ceramic mass).

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Utility ceramics

The term "utility ceramics" is used in the context of the "International Ceramics Days Oldenburg" to refer to handmade ceramics which, no matter what form they take, are primarily geared to function.

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