Ceramica Foundation

The Ceramica Foundation is a Swiss foundation established in 1954. The foundation is based in Basel and has been headed by Thomas Staehelin since 1999 .

activity

The foundation supports the scientific, art-historical , cultural-historical and archaeological research of ceramics from different epochs, mostly as one-off and proportional aid for the publication and printing of writings, exhibitions on ceramics or the making available of ceramic collections, for travel or photographic work. A large part of the literature in German but also in other languages, for example on ancient ceramics or on various ceramic manufacturers, including many standard works and collection catalogs, was co-financed by the Ceramica Foundation (see project examples).

Since 2009 the foundation has financed and organized the project CERAMICA CH - National Ceramic Inventory of Switzerland .

Project examples

Examples of supported printing units

• John H. Oakley : The Achilles Painter. von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-1889-8 .
• Yasemin Tuna-Nörling: Daskyleinon I. The Attic pottery. Ízmir 1999
• Samuel Wittwer: The gallery of the Meissen animals. The menagerie of August the Strong for the Japanese Palace in Dresden. Hirmer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7774-2275-4 . (Series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Keramikfreunde eV Düsseldorf, Volume 1)
• Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky: Frankenthal porcelain. Hirmer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-3065-2 . (3 volumes, processing of Frankenthal porcelain from 1998 to 2005 in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum in Mannheim ); Review at Sehepunkte
• Hans Dieter Flach, Thomas Krueger: Chestnuts hot and delicious - chestnut pots made of porcelain, faience, earthenware and stoneware . Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940751-28-7 . (Writings on the history of Fürstenberg porcelain, Volume 2)
• Julia Weber : Meissen porcelain with decors based on East Asian models. Ernst Schneider Foundation in Lustheim Palace. Published by Renate Eikelmann, Munich: Hirmer 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-9091-5 .
• In addition, entire series, such as ceramic research or Kerameus , are supported

Projects supported

• Creation of a selection catalog for the Erlangen Collection of Antiquities (1998 to 2002)
• Pottery and Pottery in the Early Modern Age in the Canton of Bern (2001 to 2004)
• The Attic red-figure vases of the 4th century v. Of the Historical Museum in Kerch (Ukraine), 2008 to 2010
• Support of the material collection for a scientific study of the Electoral Porcelain Manufactory in Höchst
• New construction of the Wedgwood Museum
• Cataloging the Ehmann Collection

Supported exhibitions

• The World In Colors. An Exhibition Presented by the Oriental Ceramics Society. London 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ | Foundation purpose
2. ↑ Daskyleinon I (PDF; 203 kB)
3. ↑ Purchase of a Fürstenberg chestnut pot
4. ↑ Collection of Antiquities Erlangen (selection catalog)
5. ↑ Pottery and pottery in the early modern period in the canton of Bern
6. ↑ The Attic red-figure vases of the 4th century. v. Chr. Of the Historical Museum in Kerch (Ukraine)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main ( Memento from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ The auction of the Ehmann Collection at the Metz auction house ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.7 MB)  
9. ^ The World In Colors