After closing the Bauhaus in Weimar the workshop as a training centre in Dornburg continued to exist. From that moment Otto Lindig»Otto Lindig«Otto Lindig (1895 – 1966) was not only student at the Bauhaus Pottery from the very beginning but also ran the workshop to 1947 after the Weimar Bauhaus was closed. Together with Marguerite Friedlaender and Theodor Bogler he belonged to the three important designers of the first years. In contrast to Bogler’s geometric approach he developed his functional vessel aesthetics out of the flowing line. Pots on the basis of his designs L 15 and L 16 belong to the best in the field of western modern age in ceramic vessel design.
From 1926 onwards Lindig trained numerous apprentices who helped further spread the design language developed in Dornburg. As independent master potter he was forced more and more to craft manufacturing. The products characterized by apparently simple glazing are unique items nowadays and worldwide searched for. ran the pottery, first as crafts master at the newly founded State College for Crafts and Architecture (Staatliche Hochschule für Handwerk und Baukunst), from 1930 as independent master potter. So again apprentices underwent their training here, partially worked in the Marstall workshop for years and took important positions in the German ceramics history after leaving Dornburg. The following belonged to them: Johannes Leßmann»Johannes Leßmann«Johannes Leßmann (1903 – 1944) was a student/ an apprentice of Otto Lindig after having already undergone training as a potter in Bunzlau. At that time the ceramics workshop in Dornburg belonged to the State College for Crafts and Architecture (Staatliche Hochschule für Handwerk und Baukunst), the successor school of the Bauhaus in Weimar. As head of the workshop Margaretenhöhe in Essen he spread the simple but demanding aesthetics of the Bauhaus ceramics in the Ruhr area. His early death during the war made his further and wider development impossible., Liebfriede Bernstiel»Liebfriede Bernstiel«Liebfriede Bernstiel (1915 – 1998) might have been Otto Lindig’s most important student and co-worker. In 1939 she began her training under Lindig and ran the workshop till the end of the war after he had been called up for military service. When Lindig changed to the Hamburg College of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule) in 1947, he again worked with Liebfriede. When he retired in 1960, he handed her over his moulds created in Hamburg and most of his glazing formulations., Walburga Külz»Walburga Külz«Walburga Külz (1921 – 2002) entered Otto Lindig’s workshop in 1940. First her training ended in that year when Lindig was called up for military service in 1944. Returning after the end of the war, she passed the master examination in Weimar in 1946 and continued to work in Dornburg. In 1947 she took over the management of the Essen workshop Margarethenhöhe. In 1953 she founded her own pottery in Erbach. In her late work she developed more and more to create non-functional vessels and ceramic works of art., Erich Triller»Erich Triller«Erich Triller (1898 – 1972) was from 1932 to 1934 Otto Lindig’s apprentice in Dornburg. His ceramic work after the time in Dornburg is still mainly unknown., Rose Krebs»Rose Krebs«Rose Krebs was Lindig’s apprentice in the upheaval phase of 1930 in Dornburg. The workshop was transferred into private use and lease. It is unknown how long Rose Krebs stayed in Dornburg. After her emigration to the USA she worked as a potter there, too., Otto Hofmann»Otto Hofmann«The painter Otto Hofmann (1907 – 1996) was a student under Kandinsky and Klee at the Bauhaus in Dessau. In 1930 still invited to an art exhibition in Jena, his works (he was member of the KPD) were banned as degenerated. In the middle of the 1930s Otto Lindig supported the destitute painter by giving him the task to paint vessels with light ground., Douglas Zadek»Douglas Zadek«Douglas Zadek (1913 – 1979) was born in London and entered Otto Lindig’s workshop as an apprentice in 1930. Later on he worked for the well-known British ceramicist Bernard Leach and then he founded the Cobham Pottery Ltd in 1947. Up to the 1950s products of this workshop still show parallels in some of the product series to the achievements of the Dornburg ceramic workshop, for instance in the functional design and the multi-layered glazing reduced in colour. Single items are decorated with Engobe painting - the skill Zadek might have learnt in Thuringia.

Up to 1947 Lindig manufactured his “Bauhaus ceramics (Bauhaustöpfereien – as he said himself) here in the family workshop. However, he also continued to produce a lot of his own designs developed in the first half of the twenties.

Despite lasting economic difficulties Lindig gained high national and international appreciation in the 1930s. The gold medal he achieved at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 not least of all proves the appreciation Lindig’s ceramics gained and have gained up to now.