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Authentizität, tradition und moderne: Marguerite Wildenhain und Ruth Duckworth, emigrierte Atelierkeramikerinnen (1936–1964)

This chapter examines the ways that two women designers negotiated modernist practices and studio pottery; Ruth Duckworth proposed a radical aesthetic that contributed to a new direction within modernism in Britain and the USA, whilst Marguerite Wildenhain reassessed the internationalist agenda of high modernism within the context of regional and craft pottery in the USA. Their work exemplifies what Ehrhard Bahr termed ‘Exile Modernism’; these modernist practices which privileged paradox, ambiguity, and uncertainty, were also exacerbated by forced migration. Considered in this light, Duckworth and Wildenhain challenged the orthodoxies of studio pottery as established by 1945 in important ways.