149 - Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff (de)

Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff (de) Untitled Sculpture Ceramic 1970 H 19 L 28 D 8 cm German ceramic artists working as a couple, Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff are part of the Studiokeramik movement—workshop ceramics—which, in Germany, advocates for a creative process entirely controlled by the artist, from form to firing. This piece from 1970, wider than it is tall and of thin wall thickness, is more akin to a sculpture than a vessel. It reflects the openness of German ceramics during those years to abstraction and free forms, alongside artists such as Beate Kuhn and Karl and Ursula Scheid. A work representative of a movement that has now been rediscovered.