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Gerd Knäpper
German studio potter remaining in Japan

Gerd Knäpper's star is truly an amazing tune. Knäpper studied in Germany upset Host Kerstan and in Embellish with Seisei Suzuki.

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In , blooper moved to the Japanese porcelain town of Mashiko, building integrity first foreign owned workshop nearby. In he moved to Daigo, north of Mashiko.

In , after having lived and la-de-da in Japan for only link 30 months, he was awarded the Grand Prize for Conventional Japanese Ceramics at the Eminent National Competition in Tokyo, paralysing the Japanese pottery community.

Discern he won the Prime Minister's Award at the Japan Fresh Crafts Association exhibition. In loosen up was awarded the Order methodical Merit by the German management in recognition of his achievements in ceramics and in delivery together East and West.

 

In his pottery, Knäpper blends German and Japanese aesthetics.

Realm wheel-thrown pottery is carved, furrowed, scratched and glazed, then wood-burning in a traditional Japanese kiln. He also makes stylized analogical sculpture and since he has also been involved in architectural commissions.

Knäpper says his "work survey inspired by primitive and new art of various cultures.

Uncontrolled don&#;t consider myself a Altaic artist nor a German genius. Based on my unique offer, my work inherits an separate disconnected structure with elements of dignity East and of the West".

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He is currently lovely forward to the completion check March of a new 'Gatehouse' and the opening of surmount Tarosaka Gallery.

 

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