DOI Artikel:
Simpson, Stanley: The Berlin porcelain factory and beauty in the modern home
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7098#0077
Kunst und Handwerk
A.D. 1851
Ruth Schaumann, München • Lobster-Service State Porcelain Factory Berlin
^ Krebsservice Staatl. Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
The Berlin State Porcelain Factory fully recognisesthe modern these lovely pieces is decorated with the coloured figure of
demand for china and porcelain articles of simple form for a fish or mermaid, drawn in delicate lines which compel the
every-day use, and has enlisted the Services of several other observer's eye to follow their gentle rhythm. The treatment of
designers of esfablished reputation whose modern artistic the edges tends to strengthen the effectof the decorative motif.
conceptions are admirably adopted to the creation of such There seems hardly to be a limit to the rieh variety of original
types. Among these artists are Gerhard Mareks (Director of and distinetive designs which the Berlin Porcelain Factory is
the Art and Crafts School in (Confinued on Page 72)
Giebichenstein,near Halle),
Marguerite Friedländer-
Wildenhain (Directress of
the Ceramic Technical
Courses of the same school)
and Ruth Schaumann, who
is well-known not only as
a modeller, but as a poet.
The combination in Ruth
Schaumann's case is by no
means accidental, for the
grace of her delightful
lyrics and the delicaey of
her porcelain designs seem
to be the expression of one
and the same spirit in two
difTerent forms. One of
Ruth Schaumann's most po-
pulär models isthe"Vineta Alice von Pechmann, Berlin • Porcelain Lamps Stete Porcelain hactory Berlin
Set of fish-plates. Each of V Porzellan-Lampen Staat!. Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
A.D. 1851
Ruth Schaumann, München • Lobster-Service State Porcelain Factory Berlin
^ Krebsservice Staatl. Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
The Berlin State Porcelain Factory fully recognisesthe modern these lovely pieces is decorated with the coloured figure of
demand for china and porcelain articles of simple form for a fish or mermaid, drawn in delicate lines which compel the
every-day use, and has enlisted the Services of several other observer's eye to follow their gentle rhythm. The treatment of
designers of esfablished reputation whose modern artistic the edges tends to strengthen the effectof the decorative motif.
conceptions are admirably adopted to the creation of such There seems hardly to be a limit to the rieh variety of original
types. Among these artists are Gerhard Mareks (Director of and distinetive designs which the Berlin Porcelain Factory is
the Art and Crafts School in (Confinued on Page 72)
Giebichenstein,near Halle),
Marguerite Friedländer-
Wildenhain (Directress of
the Ceramic Technical
Courses of the same school)
and Ruth Schaumann, who
is well-known not only as
a modeller, but as a poet.
The combination in Ruth
Schaumann's case is by no
means accidental, for the
grace of her delightful
lyrics and the delicaey of
her porcelain designs seem
to be the expression of one
and the same spirit in two
difTerent forms. One of
Ruth Schaumann's most po-
pulär models isthe"Vineta Alice von Pechmann, Berlin • Porcelain Lamps Stete Porcelain hactory Berlin
Set of fish-plates. Each of V Porzellan-Lampen Staat!. Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin