Conrad Dressler

English sculptor and potter (1856–1940)

Conrad Dressler (22 May 1856 – 3 August 1940) was an English sculptor and potter.^[1]

Dressler was born in London and studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art.^[2] He was later influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement. In the 1880s, he worked at Cedar Studios in Chelsea, London.^[3] He worked in partnership with Harold Rathbone between 1894 and 1897 at the Della Robbia Pottery, and then moved to Marlow Common in Buckinghamshire, where he established the Medmenham Pottery specializing in architectural tiles and large wall panels, created from small sections.^[4] The business was financed by Robert William Hudson until 1906 when it changed into the Dressler Tunnel Ovens Ltd, the Medmenham tile designs continued to be made by J. H. Barratt of Stoke-on-Trent. Dressler designed an industrial level tunnel kiln for the English pottery industry, for which he was awarded the John Scott Medal of the Franklin Institute. Later he lived in Paris and the United States. He died at Saint-Brévin l'Océan, Loire, France.^[5]

References

^ "National Portrait Gallery". Retrieved 29 March 2017.
^ "Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
^ "Settlement and building: Artists and Chelsea Pages 102-106 A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12, Chelsea". British History Online. Victoria County History, 2004. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^ "Victorian Web". Retrieved 29 March 2017.
^ "Journal of the Decorative Arts Society". 18. 1994. Retrieved 29 March 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Conrad Dressler.

The Sower, by Dressler
Lupercalia by Dressler, front view - Flickr photo by Sheepdog Rex (Rex Harris)
Sculpture Room at Walker Art Gallery (Lupercalia by Dresssler, right view, is at left of photo, backlit and partly obscured by lens flares) - Flickr photo by SomeDriftwood (Arthur John Picton)