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name: Duckworth (Windmüller)
vorname: Ruth
wikidata-repräsentation: Q15461336
gnd-repräsentation: 119080605
biografische angaben: Born April 10, 1919 in Hamburg, died October 18, 2009 in Chicago. American modernist sculptor who specialized in ceramics, though she also worked in stoneware, porcelain, and bronze.
Ruth Duckworth left Germany in 1936 to escape the Nazis and lived with her sister in England, where she attended the Liverpool School of Art from 1936 to 1940. Eager to help the war efort, she worked for two years in a munitions factory in manchester and afterward attended the Kennington School of Art in London to learn stone carving. The results of three years spent carving tombstones, primarily female figures, were exhibited in London in 1953. Working also in clay, she went to London's Central School of Art in 1960, where she learned to glaze, and became an instructor there. Her reputation for ceramics that challenge the traditional spread through England, and in 1964 she was invited to teach at Midway Studios at the University of Chicago. She taught there two years then, and again from 1968 to 1977. During this latter time she received her first mural commission, a tree-dimensional composition called Earth, Water and Sky, for the University of Chicago, composed of undulating, raised, and overlapping segments of glazed clay. Her ceramics are sculptural and increasingly minimal, although her forms are mostly derived from nature.