Karl Drerup

1903 1999

American ceramicist, painter, and graphic artist (1904–2000)

Karl Joseph Maria Drerup was an American enamelist. Trained as a painter, Drerup taught himself to enamel in the early 1940s, fusing glass to metal through a high-temperature firing process. He is noted as an important figure among enamel artists that emerged in the United States in the period immediately following World War II.

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