Beginning with my great-grandfather and up to my mother pottery has a long tradition in my family. When I started studying ceramics in 2000 there were two ceramists having an immense influence on my own work: On the one hand my great-grandfather Otto Lindig who studied at the Bauhaus and later took over the Bauhaus ceramic workshop and on the other hand Walter Popp who taught at the University of Kassel from 1954 to 1977 being seminal for a whole generation of ceramists in Germany. In my own work I am continuing fundamental approaches of these two famous teachers.

In my work I am focused on vessels assembled from several parts. I am developing forms that could not simply be thrown on the wheel in just one piece. Though it's not about making the most complex shape – it's about working with the form in a very accurate way.

Ultimately my work is always concerned with volume and space – aesthetically researching the relationship between interior and exterior by the issue of a ceramic vessel.

Biography Lutz Könecke (PDF)