Course objective: One or more self-made vessels.

Course content: Creative shaping without a potter's wheel, only with your hands. The different possibilities of the structure and the surface treatment are shown, the use of pigments (red iron oxide, graphite) is explained. Who wants to shape e.g. a bowl in the style of the Hallstatt period or feels like making an idol figure like in the 5th millennium BC (Middle Neolithic) is in the right place here. But it doesn't just have to be historical models. You can of course also realize your own creative ideas.

Historical background: The earliest archaeological finds of ceramics in our area are around seven and a half thousand years old. Throughout millennia, a wide variety of ceramics were produced in a variety of shapes by hand pottery. It was only with the Celts that the use of the fast rotating potter's wheel entered ceramic production. Hand-pottery still carried on after that.

Instructors: Vera and Ludwig Albustin
Course duration: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Course costs: 85 euros
Material contribution: 5 euros