Edmund de Waal
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Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, is a contemporary English artist, master potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. De Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes was awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015. De Waal's second book The White Road, tracing his journey to discover the history of porcelain was released in 2015.
Edmund de Waal (2013)
Teapot, 1997 – an early work in porcelain by de Waal
black milk, 2015, in situ at Edmund de Waal's London Studio
Lichtzwang, 2014. Installed in the Theseus Temple, Vienna.
Ephrussi family
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The Ephrussi family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family. The family's bank and properties were seized by the Nazi authorities after the 1938 "Anschluss", the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.
Coat of arms granted to Ignace von Ephrussi in 1871
Palais Ephrussi on Vienna's Ringstraße (Universitätsring), opposite the Votivkirche, 2006
Villa Ephrussi on the French Riviera, 2011
81 rue de Monceau, Paris