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3 unusual facts about Max Krehan


Max Krehan

In 1919, when the now-famous Bauhaus school of art and design began in nearby Weimar, its founder Walter Gropius established a workshop in production pottery, with the intention that it would be taught at a factory in Weimar.

Shortly before her death, Wildenhain (Krehan's student) gave to one of her students and close associates, American potter Dean Schwarz, a small, handwritten German diary, with an inscription on the title page that reads Dem letzen Töpfere seines Stammes (To the Last Potter of His Lineage).

Among the students there that year were Marguerite Wildenhain, Gertrud Coja, Lydia Foucar, Johannes Driesch, Theodor Bogler and Otto Lindig.



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