Engelbert Kayser

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The company headquarters on Hohe Strasse in Cologne

Engelbert Kayser (* 1840 in Kaiserswerth ; † September 3, 1911 in Schmelze (Eitorf) ) was a German tin caster . He was the older brother of the Berlin architect Heinrich Joseph Kayser .

In his Cologne studio, numerous templates and models were created for the Kayserzinn company in Krefeld , which was managed by Engelbert's brother Johann Peter (JP) Kayser and was one of the leading tin foundries in Germany. Engelbert Kayser's designs were largely Art Nouveau . From 1894 he was the artistic director of the company. In this capacity he employed Hugo Leven , Karl Geyer, Johann Christian Kröner , Hermann Fauser and Karl Berghof, among others . An abstract of the company's history can be read: The artistic significance of Kayserzinn died with the death of Engelbert Kayser in 1911. Meyer's Großes Konversations-Lexikon from 1909 reports in his article on tin casting: After a hundred years of decline, the artistic Z. has only been in existence since the beginning of the It was resumed in the 1880s, first in Germany by Engelbert Kayser in Cologne, in a new alloy called "Kayser tin" after him, which prevents the metal from becoming matt or blind. Kayser has joined the modern reform efforts and created drinking and economic utensils in which, while fully preserving the simple character of the material and with sparing ornamentation, a serious striving for new, appropriate forms is recognizable [...]

Engelbert Kayser died on September 3, 1911 in his representative hunting lodge in Schmelze (Eitorf), built in 1891, on the Sieg. He was buried in the family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (MA, between Lit. H and HWG).

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death, the city of Cologne honored him with a special exhibition “Art Nouveau Pewter from Cologne” from September 4 to November 20, 2011 in the Museum of Applied Art .

literature

Exhibition catalog 2011: KAYSERZINN, Art Nouveau tin from Cologne. G. Dietrich / E. Wagner, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kayserzinn.de/Kataloge/kayserzinn_katalog/kayserzinn_katalog.html
  2. ↑ http://www.senses-artnouveau.com/biography.php?artist=KAY
  3. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Zinngu%C3%9F
  4. ↑ picture of the Gabstätte. In: findagrave.com. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kayser, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and tin caster
DATE OF BIRTH 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserswerth
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1911
Place of death Eitorf