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 Rut Bryk (1916-1999) Rut
Bryk graduated as a graphic designer from the School of Arts and Crafts
in Helsinki in 1939, and started at Arabia in 1942. She was almost a
stranger to ceramics when she started experimenting with the raw
material that was later to bring her world renown. Her early decorative
wall plaques show a magic world of imaginative flowers and fairies
dancing in the woods. The colouring is luminous and light. Her faience
plaques have a strange and strong glow. Her painted plaques in faience
display intense colours due to thick glazing. She also used glazing to
enhance the depth dimension of the plaques. In the ”ceramic
paintings” from the 1950s she uses delicate lines in relief
to emphasise the motifs. Bryk’s imagery is an original combination of elements taken from the Byzantium, early renaissance, folk art and constructivism. In her early painted plaques she used everyday subjects in a manner remini- scent of icons. Geometric basic forms were used as additional decoration in the idyllic everyday scenes of the ’40s and ’50s, but since the ’60s they have been employed as subjects in their own right. Works designed in the ’70s and ’80s can be described as plastic architectural graphics. Rut´s huspand was one of Finland's most eminent postwar designers - Tapio Wirkkala. Represented: Design Museum, Helsinki; Prizes: e.g. Milan Triennale 1951 (the Grand Prix); Milan Triennale 1954 (the diplôme d'honneur); Pro Finlandia 1962; Vallauris 1972 (the Grand Prix); Munchen 1977 (Exempla-prize); Finland State Award 1974; Helsinki Medal 1978 Information: Extracts – Rut Bryk 1916–1999 Pay
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