b'131799799 businessman whom she had married in Vienna in 1926, LUCIE RIE & HANS COPER and their marriage was dissolved in 1940. For a time she brown earthenware dish, provided accommodation to another Austrian migr, the stamped with both of the artists monograms, physicist Erwin Schrdinger. During and after the war, to 18.5cm diameter. make ends meet, she made ceramic buttons and jewellery Lucie Rie (nee Gomperz, 1902 - 1995)for couture fashion outlets. Exactly matching ceramic and Hans Coper (1920 - 1981) buttons to the colours of the clothing to which they were to be attached stimulated Ries experimentation and accuracy Dame Lucie Rie, DBE was an Austrian-born, independent,with glazes. Her buttons are now displayed at the Victoria British studio potter working in a time when most ceramicistsand Albert Museum.were male. She is known for her extensive technicalIn 1946, Rie hired Hans Coper, a fellow migr, a young knowledge, her meticulously detailed experimentation withman with no experience in ceramics, to help her fire the glazes and with firing and her unusual decorative techniques.buttons. Although Coper was interested in learning sculpture, Lucie Gomperz was born in Vienna, the youngest child ofshe sent him to a potter named Heber Mathews, who Gisela and Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewish medical doctor whotaught him how to make pots on the wheel. Rie and Coper was a consultant to Sigmund Freud. She had two brothers,exhibited together in 1948. Coper became a partner in Ries Paul Gomperz and Teddy Gomperz. Paul Gomperz wasstudio, where he remained until 1958.Their friendship lasted killed at the Italian front in 1917. She had a liberal upbringing.until Copers death in 1981.She studied pottery under Michael Powolny at the ViennaCoper was born in Chemnitz, Germany, to a Jewish father Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of arts and crafts associatedand a non-Jewish mother, and fled to the UK in 1939. He was with the Wiener Werksttte, in which she enrolled in 1922. Sheinterned as an enemy alien, and held in Canada for two years. set up her first studio in Vienna in 1925 and exhibited the sameOn his return to Britain in 1942, he served as a conscientious year at the Paris International Exhibition. She was influenced byobjector in the Non-Combatant Corps. Copers work was Neoclassicism, Jugendstil, Modernism, and Japonism. In 1937,widely exhibited and collected even in his lifetime. Today, it is Rie won a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition (thefound in the collections of major museums around the world, exhibition for which Pablo Picasso painted Guernica). Rie hadincluding the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and her first solo show as a potter in 1949. Albert Museum, Museum de Fundatie, the Sainsbury Centre In 1938, Rie had fled Nazi Austria and emigrated to England.in Norwich UK, and York Art Gallery, as well as in private She settled in a small mews house in London where shecollections worldwide.lived and had her studio for the rest of her life. Around$1,2002,000the time she emigrated, she separated from Hans Rie, a'