Margarete Heymann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margarete Heymann

German ceramic artist

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1899

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1990

Profession: businessperson, painter, ceramist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Margarete Heymann (August 10, 1899 – 11 November 1990), also known as Margarete Heymann-Löbenstein, Margarete Heymann-Marks, and Grete Marks, was a German ceramic artist of Jewish origin and a Bauhaus student.
In 1923 she founded the Haël Workshops for Artistic Ceramics at Marwitz that she had to close in 1933 and settled in Jerusalem.
She moved to Britain in 1936 and continued her work, becoming world famous as “Greta Pottery”.
Her finest work is considered to be from her working period in Germany.