DOI Artikel:
Sager, Walter A. de: The Royal Nymphenburg porcelain factory
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7098#0064
Creative Hands
No. 735
Phot. Reidt, München
Else Wenz-Vietor • Coffee-service Royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
▼ Mokka-Service Slaall. Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg
flcing Services of a series ot artists of rare power and origi- ideas and subjects in their every-day, life and surroundings,
nality ihe Bavarian factory was able to rival the finest pro- as well as on the stage, but many were derived from old
ductions of the sister establishments in Meissen, Vienna and legends, and from the "Italian Comedy" which became so
Berlin, and to set up the noble tradition of giving of its best populär during the Rococo period. It was characteristic of
which has continued unbroken down to the present time. Bustelli,as Prof. Hoffmann,Curator of the"ResidenceMuseum"
Germany, the country which discovered the technical secrets in Munich points out, that he never created Single figures, but
of porcelain manufacture, was also the most successful in the as a rule two persons or a pair of figures, invariably linked
development and production of china-ware of the figure, together by a common thought or experience. The leading
fancy and artistic type. Every china factory had its own motif in their creation and their expression and effect are only
chief modellers, but the work of the rest was surpassed by fully understood when the two counter pieces or figures are
the greatest of all modelling masters, Francesco A. Bustelli. confronted with each olher, or, in the caseofa series of figures,
Bustelli's creations eclipse byfaranything which was produced when the whole series is arranged in Position,
in Chinaware of the figure type during the Rococo period, not
only in inventive spirit and finesse and contour of modelling, Although Nymphenburg can claim that no other china fac-
but also in their approach to nature, and the choice of subject. tory has been equally successful in bringing back to life and
During the eight-and-a-half years of his connection with the in reproducing so perfectly the artistic inheritance confided
Bavarian Factory he created about 150 figures, among them to it by its own past history, this porcelain factory had also
six large groups, and also a great number of models of made tremendous strides in the direction of modern art.
chinaware of the useful type, some of which are covered with Prof. Joseph Wackerle, Chief Modeiler of the Nymphenburg
Rocaille-work. In all his works a delicate style of decoration Porcelain Factory, and nowthe creative leader of the Ceramic
carefully executed down to the minutest detail of facial ex- World, is to-day furnishing Nymphenburg with the mostaston-
pression, colour of Ihe costumes, etc., vie with the skilfully ishing modern porcelain andMajolica groups. Prof.Wackerle
planned modelling of the object. Bustelli, like his contem- who is responsible for an entirely new plastic treatment of
poraries in other porcelain factories, generally sought for porcelain, is one of the most prolific and versatile artists of
No. 735
Phot. Reidt, München
Else Wenz-Vietor • Coffee-service Royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
▼ Mokka-Service Slaall. Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg
flcing Services of a series ot artists of rare power and origi- ideas and subjects in their every-day, life and surroundings,
nality ihe Bavarian factory was able to rival the finest pro- as well as on the stage, but many were derived from old
ductions of the sister establishments in Meissen, Vienna and legends, and from the "Italian Comedy" which became so
Berlin, and to set up the noble tradition of giving of its best populär during the Rococo period. It was characteristic of
which has continued unbroken down to the present time. Bustelli,as Prof. Hoffmann,Curator of the"ResidenceMuseum"
Germany, the country which discovered the technical secrets in Munich points out, that he never created Single figures, but
of porcelain manufacture, was also the most successful in the as a rule two persons or a pair of figures, invariably linked
development and production of china-ware of the figure, together by a common thought or experience. The leading
fancy and artistic type. Every china factory had its own motif in their creation and their expression and effect are only
chief modellers, but the work of the rest was surpassed by fully understood when the two counter pieces or figures are
the greatest of all modelling masters, Francesco A. Bustelli. confronted with each olher, or, in the caseofa series of figures,
Bustelli's creations eclipse byfaranything which was produced when the whole series is arranged in Position,
in Chinaware of the figure type during the Rococo period, not
only in inventive spirit and finesse and contour of modelling, Although Nymphenburg can claim that no other china fac-
but also in their approach to nature, and the choice of subject. tory has been equally successful in bringing back to life and
During the eight-and-a-half years of his connection with the in reproducing so perfectly the artistic inheritance confided
Bavarian Factory he created about 150 figures, among them to it by its own past history, this porcelain factory had also
six large groups, and also a great number of models of made tremendous strides in the direction of modern art.
chinaware of the useful type, some of which are covered with Prof. Joseph Wackerle, Chief Modeiler of the Nymphenburg
Rocaille-work. In all his works a delicate style of decoration Porcelain Factory, and nowthe creative leader of the Ceramic
carefully executed down to the minutest detail of facial ex- World, is to-day furnishing Nymphenburg with the mostaston-
pression, colour of Ihe costumes, etc., vie with the skilfully ishing modern porcelain andMajolica groups. Prof.Wackerle
planned modelling of the object. Bustelli, like his contem- who is responsible for an entirely new plastic treatment of
poraries in other porcelain factories, generally sought for porcelain, is one of the most prolific and versatile artists of