August Warnecke
August Warnecke was a German manufacturer of porcelain .
The Warnecke company was founded in 1925 by August Warnecke (* 1903). The parent company was on Schnackenburgallee in Hamburg. Own decors such as " Ostfriesische Rose ", "Ostfriesland", "Hybiscus", "Frisian Blue", "China Purple" and "Nikko Green" were developed. Initially, these series were hand-painted, later applied using a steel engraving process. Production took place in Great Britain ( Wedgwood , Copeland), Hungary ( Herend ), Italy (Venini, Bitossi), China and Japan. Glasses were imported from Austria. All productions were marked with the company symbol, a blue AW amphora with branches on both sides as a manufacturer's mark. In the early 1990s, the logo was "modernized".
The Warnecke company stopped production in 1999.
August Warnecke owned a large collection of glass art from the traditional company Venini ( Murano ), which in 2012 brought in over one million euros at Christie's Paris; a vase by Carlo Scarpa achieved the record price of € 241,000.
Works
- Warnecke, August: Glass of the Present. Baccarat, Orrefors, Venini . Exhibition catalog of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Frankfurt / Main . Hamburg 1963 (59 pages)
literature
- Warnecke, August: Culture in Glass and Porcelain, 1925-1965 . Verlag August Warnecke, Hamburg, 1965 (176 pages)
Individual evidence
- ^ Warnecke, August: Culture in Glass and Porcelain . Special dr. d. Company August Warnecke, Hamburg, on the 50th birthday d. Founder. Barkow, 1953 (122 pages)
- ↑ Christie's press release , accessed May 8, 2016