George Ohr was an American potter who lived from 1857 to 1918 and worked in Biloxi, Mississippi, known for eccentric, thin-walled ceramic vessels with crumpled, twisted and folded forms far ahead of the decorative pottery conventions of his own time, which brought him little recognition or income during his life. Calling himself the Mad Potter of Biloxi, his work was rediscovered decades after his death and is now recognized as a major forerunner of modern studio ceramics.
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In recognition of his innovative experimentation with modern clay forms from 1880 to 1910, some consider him a precursor to the American Abstract-Expressionism movement.
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George Ohr tried his hand at various trades before he became interested in ceramics in 1879, while an apprentice of Joseph Fortune Meyer, a potter whose family hailed from Alsace-Lorraine like Ohr's own.
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George Edgar Ohr (July 12, 1857, April 7, 1918) was an American ceramic artist and the self-proclaimed "Mad Potter of Biloxi" in Mississippi.
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was an American ceramic artist and the self-proclaimed "Mad Potter of Biloxi" in Mississippi
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