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Erich and Ingrid Triller for Tobo

Erich and Ingrid Triller for Tobo

1. Unique stoneware vase with semi matte yellow ochre glaze, 1930s-60s.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 4 3/4" (12 cm) Width 4 1/4" (11 cm)
$685 No. N6849

2. Unique stoneware vase with matte burnt orange glaze, 1930s-60s.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 8 1/8" (20.5 cm) Width 5" (13 cm)
$2200 No. N6846

3. Unique stoneware vase with matte brown glaze, 1930s-60s.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 5 1/4" (13.5 cm) Width 3" (7.5 cm)
$650 No. N6851

Erich and Ingrid Triller for Tobo

4. Unique stoneware vase with matte pale gray glaze
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 6" (15cm) Width 3 1/2" (9cm)
$1400 No. U


5. Unique stoneware vase with matte brown glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 5 1/8" (13cm) Width 3 3/4" (9.5cm)
$785 No. N6850

Erich and Ingrid Triller for Tobo

6. Unique stoneware vase with matte moss green glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo
"
Height 6" (15cm) Width 4" (10cm)
$985 No. N6847


7. Unique stoneware vase with matte moss green glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo
"
Height 5 1/2" (14cm) Width 3 1/2" (9cm)
$750 No. N
6848

8. Unique stoneware vase with matte yellow ochre glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo
"
Height 10" (25.5cm) Width 6" 15(cm)
$2600 No. N6845



Erich and Ingrid Triller for Tobo

9. Unique stoneware vase with satin textured mate burnt orange glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 9 1/4" (23.5cm) Width 5 1/2" (14cm)
$2800 No. N 5316

10. Unique handthrown stoneware vase with matte red orange glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 9" (23cm)
Width 6 1/2" (16.5cm)
$2650 No. N5178

11. Unique stoneware vase with satin textured matte burnt orange glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 6 1/4" (15.5cm) Width 4 3/4" (12.5cm)
SOLD No. N5799

12. Unique stoneware vase with satin textured matte burnt orange glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 6" (15cm) Width 5" (13cm)
$1850 No. N5508

13. Unique stoneware vase with burnt orange glaze with charcoal gray highlights to rim and foot.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 8 1/2" (21.5cm)
Width 6" (15cm)
SOLDNo. N5288

Erich and Ingrid Triller for Tobo

14. Stoneware footed beaker-vase with yellow ochre glaze
Painted "triller tobo"
Height 5 3/4" (14.5cm)
Width 3 3/4" (9.5cm)
$800
No. N1952

15. Unique stoneware vase with matte taupe glaze.
Painted "trller Tobo"
Height 5" (13cm) Width 4 1/2" (11cm)
$965 No. N6131

16. Unique stoneware vase with pale brown matte mottled glaze.
Painted "92.07 triller Tobo"
Height 5 1/4" (13.5cm)
Width 4 1/2" (11.5cm)
$985 No. N5310

17. Unique stoneware vase with dark brown semi- matte glaze.
Height 8 1/2" (22cm)
Width 7" (18cm)
Painted "Triller Tobo"
$1800 No. N3442

18. Unique stoneware vase with dark black/brown matte glaze.
Painted marks "Triller Tobo"
Width 4" (10cm)
Height 5 1/2" (13.5cm)
$650 No. N3221

19. Unique handthrown stoneware vase with matte dark brown glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 5 1/4" (13.5cm)
Width 5" (13cm)
$680 No. N5309

20. Unique stoneware vase with matte dark brown glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 6 1/2" (16.5cm)
Width 4" (10cm)
$895 No. N5308

21. Unique stoneware vase with matte reddish brown glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Height 6" (15cm)
Width 4" (10cm)
$765 No. N5122

22. Unique stoneware vase with dark blue glaze.
Height 4 3/4" (12cm)
Painted "Triller "
$720 No. N1132

23. Unique stoneware jar with lid and mottled gray glaze.
Painted "triller Tobo"
Width 4 1/2" (11cm)
Height 5 1/2" (14cm)
SOLD No. N3225

24. Unique stoneware lidded jar with matte dark brown glaze.
Painted "Triller Tobo"
Height 3" (7.5 cm) Diameter 4 1/4" (11cm)
$465 No. N2078

25. Unique stoneware vase with ultramarine blue glaze.
Painted "triller tobo"
Height 6" (15cm)
$865 No. N1647

26. Unique stoneware teapot with pitted matte gray glaze.
Painted "172.01 triller Tobo"
Width 7" (18cm)
Height 4 1/2" ( cm)
$785 No. N2734

27. Unique stoneware vase with mottled dark blue glaze.
Height 6 3/4" (17cm)
Painted "triller "
$950 No. N1225

28. Unique stoneware vase with speckled gray glaze.
Height 4 1/2" (11.5cm)
Painted "Triller "
$720 No. N1136

ERICH & INGRID TRILLER - Biography

Erich and Ingrid Triller were husband-and-wife ceramists specializing in stoneware who were trained in Germany and established a studio in Sweden, which they operated for thirty-seven years.

Erich was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1898. Ingrid Abenius was born in Västerfärnebo, Sweden, in 1905. They studied at the Staatliche Keramische Fachschule, in Bunzlau, Germany, from 1929-32, and obtained further training from the prominent Bauhaus ceramist Otto Lindig, in Dornburg an der Saale, Germany, from 1932-34. They married in 1934 and, in the following year, established a small ceramics workshop in the village of Tobo, which is located north of Stockholm, in the province of Uppland. In the same year, they purchased a railroad-car-load of clay from the Swedish town of Höganäs. This was enough to keep them supplied for their rest of their careers.

The Trillers' work was heavily influenced by the Bauhaus approach to ceramics, particularly the emphasis on the control of the objects produced. As well, like many European ceramists of their generation, they were influenced by the forms and glazes of ancient Chinese ceramics. Their quest for excellence was reflected by painstaking attention to the work process, which allowed them to better control the results of glazing and firing. Records were kept on every piece they produced, and every firing was documented in a special book. They wanted the results of their work to be consistent; they were not interested in having "surprises" occur in their kiln. They were remarkably successful in this regard as is evidenced by both the precision of their forms and the consistent exquisiteness and subtlety of the various glazes they employed.

The Trillers' first exhibition was held in 1936 at NK (Nordiska Kampaniet), the famous Stockholm department store. Later, their work was exhibited at the New York World's Fair (1939), the Gävle Museum (Gävle, Sweden, 1943), Hantverket (Stockholm, 1943), the Milan Triennale (1960), and Hantverket (1965). Erich Triller died in 1972, and Ingrid died in 1982. In 1975, a retrospective exhibition of their work, titled "Triller of Tobo: Stoneware 1935-1972, from Erich and Ingrid Triller's Workshop in Tobo," was mounted by the Nationalmuseum (Stockholm) and the Röhsska Museum (Göteborg). At present, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Gera, Germany) is planning an exhibition, titled "Heirs to the Bauhaus: Ingrid and Erich Triller," which is scheduled to open in October 2010.

Sources: Dahlbäck Lutteman, Helena. Svensk 1900-talskeramik. Västerås: ICA Bokförlag, 1985. Pp. 93-94.

Stavenow, Åke. "Tre Trillers." Form 3 (1965): 166-68.

Triller i Tobo: stengods 1935-1972 från Erich och Ingrid Trillers verkstad i Tobo. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum; Göteborg: Röhsska Museum, 1975.

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