Biography
Paul Beyer (b. Strasbourg, France 1873 - d. 1945) was ceramist of the Art Deco period, who also worked in glassware, enamelled dinanderie (brassware) and stoneware. He obtained a scholarship from the city of Besançon to train as a glass painter in Munich. He started work designing stained glass in his father's workshop but after a ceramics training course in Vallauris in 1905, he set up his own kilns in the Ain department, and settled in Switzerland for five years. In 1931, Sèvres granted him the use of its “Vieux Moulin” studio. He was awarded a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1937.
