Description
A Hael Werkstatten sugar basin, cover, cup and saucer by Greta Marks, with stylised disk handles, covered in a pale blue glaze printed factory marks stamped Foreign sugar 7.5cm. high
d By 1921 Grete Marks (1899-1990) had left the Bauhaus to work in a pottery at Frechen and, shortly after, to teach at the Arts and Crafts School in Cologne. In 1923 she married Gustav Loebenstein and they established the Hael-Werkstatten for Artistic Ceramics Co. Ltd. at Marwitz. This company was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, an organisation committed to progressive design.
