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Maude Friedland, Israeli potter and ceramicist, born in Austria, 20 June 1927 - 9 July 1996 Maud Claudine Mary Friedland was born in Vienna in 1927 to a bourgeois affluent family. Her father served as deputy manager of a bank and maintained a collection of art works of such artists as Titian, Paolo Veronese, Caravaggio and others. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, she emigrated with her family to the city of Arad in western Romania. In 1950 she immigrated to Israel. In the early sixties she lived in Ein Kerem, and served as a lecturer and later as head of the ceramics department at "Bezalel". After her dismissal from Bezalel, she was sent as a ceramics teacher to Guinea on behalf of UNESCO. Between the years 1967 and 1974 she served as a designer at the "Lapid" factory in Jaffa. Between 1974 and 1978 she lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. In 1978 she returned to Israel and settled in Jaffa. Friedland's work includes a wide range of subjects in a mixture of distinctive styles. The ceramic vessels she created are characterized by an abstract formal language and use a variety of glazes which she developed herself.

Education

1948-1950 Sculpture, Bucharest National University of Arts
1951-1954 Studied art with Gimond, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1954-1956 Art Academy, Vienna

Teaching

1958-1963 Ceramics, Bezalel, Jerusalem.
1964-1968 Pottery, Conacry, Guinea