Cooper Hewitt says...
Susi Singer studied at the Vienna Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (Art School for Women and Girls) under Tina Blau and Adolf Böhm among others. She designed ceramics and textiles for the Wiener Werkstätte. Singer started her own ceramics workshop after 1924, Grünbacher Keramik, in Grünbach am Schneeberg. She participated in many exhibitions including the Vienna Kunstschau (Art Show) of 1908, the Vienna Kunstschau (Art Show) of 1920, the Munich Deutsche Gewerbeschau of 1922, Arbeiten des modernen österrichischen Kunsthandwerks (Works of Modern Austrian Handicraft) exhibition of 1923, the anniversary exhibition of the Wiener Kunstgewerbe-Verein of 1924, Paris 1925, both Deutsche Frauenkunst and Wiener Frauenkunst exhibitions, The Hague exhibition of 1928–29, Das Bild im Raum of 1929, the Austrian Werkbund exhibition of 1930, and the Ninth Annual Invitational Ceramics Exhibition of Scripps College in 1952, among others. She immigrated to the United States in 1937 to escape the rise of the Nazis, and settled in Hollywood, California where she became an important part of the American studio ceramics movement until her death in 1965.
Literature:
Martha Drexler Lynn. American Studio Ceramics, Innovation and Identity, 1940-1979. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2015, 144.
Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte. Kunst und Handwerk 1903 - 1932 mit 213 Künstlerbiographien im Anhang. Vienna: Brandstätter, 1982, 266.
