Viktor Schreckengost Ceramics

A prolific industrial designer artist and teacher viktor schreckengost s creations have touched on nearly every aspect of american life.

Viktor schreckengost ceramics.

Image courtesy of cleveland state university. The ohio native designed everything from children s toys and pedal cars to trucks bicycles furniture and ceramic dinnerware. Viktor schreckengost is one of the most influential and prolific artists designers in america. He spent 1929 studying ceramics at the kunstgewerbeschule in vienna with michael powolny where he focused on sculpture and handthrown vessels.

Viktor schreckengost is known for designing and creating functional pieces and sculpture. His wide ranging work included noted pottery designs industrial design bicycle design and seminal research on radar feedback. T he son of a commercial potter in sebring ohio viktor schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father. Cia periodical collection new designs for mass production.

One of his instructors was guy cowan who later employed schreckengost for his ceramics. A20 d457 outstanding ceramics of the year. His father and both brothers were potters. Of him at this event it was written.

Viktor schreckengost june 26 1906 january 26 2008 was the father of industrial design and creator of the jazz bowl an example of jazz age art designed for eleanor roosevelt during his association with cowan pottery he is the creator of the largest freestanding ceramic sculpture in the world early settler on permanent display at lakewood high school in lakewood ohio. Four sets of tableware designed by v. In the mid 1920s he enrolled at the cleveland school of art now the cleveland institute of art or cia to study cartoon making but after seeing an exhibition at the cleveland museum of art he changed his focus to ceramics. He founded the industrial design department at the art institute.

Schreckengost was the youngest instructor ever hired. Sebring helped define schreckengost s artistic identity. After college viktor schreckengost visited world renowned ceramic centers in europe and northern africa this trip influenced the animal sculptures he created years later. In june 2006 viktor schreckengost celebrated his 100th birthday in cleveland heights ohio.

Schreckengost was born in sebring founded as a pottery production center in 1900. Viktor schreckengostms architectural terra cotta.