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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.

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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).

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



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