{{Short description|English sculptor and potter (1856–1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2010}} '''Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler''' (22 May 1856 – 3 August 1940) was an English sculptor and potter.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Portrait Gallery |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06905/conrad-dressler |accessdate=29 March 2017 }}</ref> thumb|right|150px|Portrait of Nita Maria Schonfeld Resch (1898)
==Biography== Dressler was born in Streatham to a German father and a French mother, both naturalised British citizens. He had three sisters; his sister Ada was a painter and sculptor. His father died when he was seven. Dressler studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1203107640|title=Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951|website=sculpture.gla.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-03}}</ref> He was later influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement. In the 1880s, he worked at Cedar Studios in Chelsea, London.<ref name="vch">{{cite web |title=Settlement and building: Artists and Chelsea Pages 102-106 A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12, Chelsea. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol12/pp102-106 |website=British History Online |publisher=Victoria County History, 2004 |access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> He worked in partnership with Harold Rathbone between 1894 and 1897 at the Della Robbia Pottery, and then moved to Marlow Common in Buckinghamshire, where he established the '''Medmenham Pottery''' specializing in architectural tiles and large wall panels, created from small sections.<ref>{{cite web |title=Victorian Web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/sculpture/dressler/index.html |accessdate=29 March 2017 }}</ref> The business was financed by Robert William Hudson until 1906 when it changed into the Dressler Tunnel Ovens Ltd, the Medmenham tile designs continued to be made by J. H. Barratt of Stoke-on-Trent. Dressler designed an industrial level tunnel kiln for the English pottery industry, for which he was awarded the John Scott Medal of the Franklin Institute.
Later, Dressler lived in Paris and the United States. He died at Saint-Brévin l'Océan, Loire, France.<ref>{{cite journal |title = Journal of the Decorative Arts Society |volume=18 |year=1994 |url=http://www.polkadotantiques.com/latest-news/2016/9/19/conrad-dressler-the-medmenham-pottery |accessdate=29 March 2017 }}</ref>
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==External links== {{commons category|Conrad Dressler}} * [http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/dressler/1.html The Sower, by Dressler] * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/6743434349/ Lupercalia by Dressler, front view] - Flickr photo by Sheepdog Rex (Rex Harris) * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/arthurjohnpicton/4314393034/ Sculpture Room at Walker Art Gallery (Lupercalia by Dresssler, right view, is at left of photo, backlit and partly obscured by lens flares)] - Flickr photo by SomeDriftwood (Arthur John Picton)
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