Established 2002
Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye (Born 1938) is a Turkish-Danish ceramic artist. Siesbye designed ceramic wares for the ceramic companies Royal Copenhagenand Rosenthal. In 2009, Siesbye was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettresfor her ceramic designs.
After studying sculpture at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Artsfrom 1956-1958, she left for Germany where she worked in ceramic factories in Höhr-Grenzhausen. She returned two years later to Istanbul to work in the Art Workshop of the Eczacibasi Ceramic Factories. In 1962, she left Istanbul for Copenhagen and worked for the ceramic company Royal Copenhagen as an artist. She opened her own workshop in 1969. She lived in Denmark until 1987, when she decided to go to Paris. From 1975 to 1990, she worked as a ceramic designer for Rosenthal and from 1984-2000 for Royal Copenhagen. In 2007, she became a designer for Pasabahce Glass Factories in Turkey and resides in Paris.[
She has built an international reputation as a ceramist by modeling bowls. In 2002, "A ceramics Universe/1964-2002," a retrospective exhibition of her works, was exhibited in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul and the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen. She is in the collections of more than 34 major museums in the world.
Alev Siesbye for Royal Copenhagen - 1964
Height 12,5 cm. (4,9")
Width 22,0 cm. (8,7")
Painted "Alev" and three waves
Printed “Denmark”
Unique
Alev Siesbye - 1976
Height 16,5 cm. (6,5")
Width 28,0 cm. (11,0")
Incised "Alev 76"
Purchased at Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam
Lot 149, November 2019
Unique
Alev Siesbye - 1983
Height 8,7 cm. (3,4")
Width 17,0 cm. (6,7")
Incised "Alev 83"
Unique
Alev Siesbye - 1983
Height 9,5 cm. (3,7")
Width 20,0 cm. (7,9")
Incised "Alev 83 A57"
Purchased at A. Petersen Collection & Craft
April 2019
Unique
Alev Siesbye
Height 7,5 cm. (3,0")
Width 11,5 cm. (4,5")
Incised "Alev", painted “A25 X/3”
Provenance: Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels
Purchased February 2022
Unique