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Gundula Sommerer
About the object: Gundula Sommerer's oval Raku vases are handmade using a construction technique and each one is unique. The use of the Raku process when firing the objects produces carbon, which penetrates the pores of the vase and gives the pieces a permanent deep black color. This black, in combination with the cracks in the surface of the vase, leads to a unique individualization of the surface structure. Both visually and haptically. This Raku vase is approx. 16 cm high, 14 cm wide, 5.5 cm deep and waterproof. It is ideal for fresh bouquets, field flowers and cornflowers as well as dried grasses or bouquets. The deep black makes colors shine! Gundula Sommerer produces this vase in different sizes in small series.
Manufacturing process: This ceramic vase made of clay is handmade using the slab technique. The vase is not glazed and is fired using the raku method. In this process, the first firing of the vase takes place at 920°C in an electric kiln and the second firing at approx. 1040°C in a gas kiln. The vase is removed from the kiln while still red-hot and placed in a box with combustible material. It continues to burn in this box for hours in a reduced atmosphere. After cooling down, it is polished on the outside with antique wax and made watertight on the inside with a special sealant.
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Gundula Sommerer was born in Stade in 1950. She initially trained as an art teacher from 1969 to 1975 before studying ceramics and sculpture at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Bremen from 1975 to 1977. She then set up her own business as a ceramicist in Visselhövede. Study trips and work took her to the USA and to France for several years before she returned to Germany in 2004. In 2011
she also completed training as an art therapist.
Gundula Sommerer is a member of the Berufsverband Angewandte Kunst Schleswig-Holstein and the FFKK (Flensborg Fjords Kunst & Kulturforeningen).
From 2016 - 2020 she was a member of Danske Kunsthandvaerkere & Designere
and since 2017 she runs the gallery TonArt in Flensburg together with Ueze Oldenburg.
Gundula Sommerer is regularly represented at exhibitions at home and abroad (France, Denmark, Austria).
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