Guenther Stuedemann vase

günther stüdemann (guenther stuedemann)
günther stüdemann (1890,berlin - 1981,kulmbach) german artist painter and ceramist.
jug marked with painted: fisch  st. - (used since 1925) (lit. g.reineking v.bock,keramik des 20.jahrhunderts,1979,) 
studmann was trained at the kunstgewerbeschule, in hamburg as a painter from 1911 stuedemann exhibited his painting at the “freien sezession berlin“ & at the „sezession in munich“. 
in the 1920s during a study trip to italyhe first came in touch with ceramics and opened in vietri sul mare his first workshop "ceramica fontana limite" short after.
the pottery-museum in faenza bought quite an ammount of his pottery while he was working in vietri sul mare (studemann's "il periodo tedesco"/the german period) 
he worked together with artists like irene kowaliska, richard dölker, margarete tewalt, liesel oppeland several others and the famous i.c.s.,industria ceramica salernitana, was founded in 1927 in collaboration with stuedemanns.
i.c.s. employed all the famous artists of the tedesco period. the list includes studemann, kowalski, hannasch, dolker, cassetta, gambone, procida, giovannino and others. 
you can find studemann's work in museums in faenza, munich, nurnberg, berlin, hamburg, leipzig, coburg, kulmbach and certainly in thurnau, in the pottery museum there, which wouldn't be without him