Trained by Josef Hoffmann, Michael Powolny, and other important artists in Vienna, Lucie Rie was a well-known potter in Europe before she fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis. At the end of the war, she had a studio in London and made red earthenware; after 1948, she also made stoneware and porcelain.
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