Paul Beyer
Henri-Paul-Auguste Beyer is well known for his pitchers, bowls, and vases adapted from Asian shapes, and also for his effort to revive the production of salt-glazed stoneware in France. His stoneware output included figures of animals and birds that Beyer produced from his personal nature studies. Beyer worked from 1932 at a studio attached to the Sèvres factory. He moved in 1942 to La Borne where he produced vessels (sometimes resembling human heads) and whimsical stylized figures.
Beyer was a member of a family of stained glass artists. He worked on cathedral glass before developing an interest in ceramics in around 1905. As a ceramist, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1937. His works are in the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne, and the Musée Céramique de Sèvres.
