Editing Eva Zeisel (section)

===Early career, imprisonment, and emigration===
In 1928, Zeisel became the designer for the [[Schramberg]]er [[Maiolica|Majolikafabrik]] in the [[Black Forest]] region of Germany where she worked for about two years creating many playfully geometric designs for dinnerware, tea sets, vases, inkwells and other ceramic items. Her designs at Schramberg were largely influenced by modern architecture.<ref name="Lucie Young 2003">{{cite book|last=Young|first=Lucie|title=Eva Zeisel|date=c. 2003|publisher=Chronicle Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=0811834336|page=11}}</ref> In addition, she had just learned to draft with compass and ruler and was proud to put them to use. In 1930, Zeisel moved to [[Berlin]], designing for the [[Weimar Porzellan|Carstens factories]]. During this period, she met the physicist [[Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski|Alexander Weissberg]], who later worked in [[Kharkov]]. They became engaged in 1932.

After almost two years of a glamorous life among intellectuals and artists in decadent [[Berlin]], Zeisel decided to visit the [[Soviet Union]] in 1932, where she would stay for 5 years.<ref name=CH/>

At the age of 29, after several jobs in the Russian ceramics industry—inspecting factories in [[Ukraine#Inter-war Soviet Ukraine|Ukraine]] as well as designing for the [[Imperial Porcelain Factory, Saint Petersburg|Lomonosov]]<ref name=CH/> and [[Dulyovo porcelain works|Dulevo]] factories—Zeisel was named artistic director of the Russian China and Glass Trust.<ref>{{cite book
|last=Young
|first=Lucie
|title=Eva Zeisel
|date=c. 2003
|publisher=Chronicle Books
|location=San Francisco
|isbn=0811834336
|page=14
}}</ref> On May 26, 1936, while living in Moscow, Zeisel was arrested. She had been falsely accused of participating in an assassination plot against [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref name=CH/> She was held in prison for 16 months, 12 of which were spent in solitary confinement.<ref name=NewYorker/> In September 1937, she was deported to [[Vienna]], Austria. Some of her prison experiences form the basis for ''[[Darkness at Noon]]'', the anti-Stalinist novel written by her childhood friend, [[Arthur Koestler]].<ref name=CH/> It was while in Vienna that she re-established contact with her future husband [[Hans Zeisel]], later a legal scholar, statistician, and professor at [[The University of Chicago]]. A few months after her arrival in Vienna the [[Nazis]] invaded, and Zeisel took the last train out. She and Hans met up in England where they married and sailed for the US with $67 between them.[[File:Eva Zeisel Castleton Museum white.jpg|thumb|Zeisel's Castleton "Museum" dinnerware series commissioned by MoMA in 1942.]]