Goldscheider ceramics

Friedrich Goldscheider ( born November 6, 1845 in Slabetz; † January 19, 1897 in Nice ) was an Austrian entrepreneur, terracotta and bronze producer.

Biography

Figures of the Viennese factory of Friedrich Goldscheider were at the end of the 19th century. sought after internationally and especially in the 1920s and met the taste of an audience. Goldscheider is one of the most successful companies of the European ceramic history.

From the beginning, put the " porcelain manufactory and Majolica Factory" on serially produced, high-quality product which has been designed by young artists. A range of products - with figures, busts, animals, masks, vessels, lamps - came to meet different customer requirements, received a total of 70 years in over 10,000 models of faience and terracotta, and bronze and alabaster in production. Figures and vessels at the highest artistic and technical standards developed in the typical contemporary styles historicism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. In 1938 the company Goldscheider was " arisiert " and into the war years by Josef Schuster. He made sure that new models of the ruling Nazi aesthetics corresponded. Peasant figures in broad forms now extended the offer, and the nude figures with a chaste expression and moral hairstyle from that time remained until the 1950s in fashion.

The Goldscheider objects have been developed also in collaboration the artists Walter Bosse, Alexandre- Louis -Marie Charpentier, Demetre Chiparus, Stephan Dakon, Claire Weiss - Herczeg, Benno Geiger, Kurt Goebel, Rudolf Knörlein, Dina Kuhn, Josef Lorenzl, Ida Meisinger, Michael Powolny, Adolf Prischl, Hans -Stephan Stoltenberg-Lerche, Arthur Strasser, William Thomasch, Vally Wieselthier. Artists who worked for Goldscheider have also worked for the Viennese Augarten manufactories, keramos or the German brands Rosenthal and Meissen porcelain.

From November 2007 to February 2008 there was a Goldscheider exhibition at the Wien Museum, from January to April 2009 in New York.