Charles Webster Leadbeater
Arthur Craco is a ceramist Belgian born with Brussels in 1869 and deceased with Woluwé-Saint-Lambert in 1955. It is one of principal renovating of ceramic art in Belgium, savagely given to make him a major place within decorative arts. Initially active as a sculptor and a draftsman, it carries out his first ceramics in 1896 in the workshop of Omer Coppens, and registers its productions in innovative mobilities of the end of the 19th century (Art nouveau). In 1909, it works in the factory of Frederic Horta, after having received a " Large Prix" at the time of the International exhibition of Milan in 1906. It carries out its first sandstones towards 1914, with Stockheim-Fouches, then with Andenne (city where one finds three fountains signed Craco). It associates with brilliance its talents of sculptor and ceramist, as much for usual objects, close to those created by Alfred Finch as from 1895, that for enamelled terra cotta or sandstone the works carved. Arthur Craco made cook a part as of its works to the Losson pottery in Andenne. The museum of the Ceramics of this city preserves many works of Craco in particular the Knight of the seas and a nativity.
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