Georg Friedrich Schmitt

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Georg Friedrich Schmitt
Orion206, tea caddy, gold-plated tin mount, ceramic body Vilmos Zsolnay
Orion315, vase, designed by Friedrich Adler, glass insert: Joh. Loetz Witwe

The businessman Georg Friedrich Schmitt , (born December 3, 1859 in Speyer ; † March 23, 1938 in Nuremberg ) founded the Orion arts and crafts metal goods factory in Nuremberg in 1903.

Orion Crafts Metalworking Factory

The production included utensils and ornaments made of tin , copper and silver as well as alloys of these metals . Similarities to products from Walter Scherf's metal goods factory for small art are quite close. This is primarily due to the artistic collaboration of Friedrich Adler , who worked for Walter Scherf as well as for Georg Friedrich Schmitt.

Georg Friedrich Schmitt's "Orion Applied Metal Goods Factory" only existed for about two and a half years. About 250 models were made during that short period of time. Far more models were probably made in the Felsenstein & Mainzer pewter foundry - not to mention Walter Scherfs' “Metallwarenfabrik für Kleinkunst”. The tin cast goods of the "Orion" brand are, however, characterized by such a high artistic level that they can be counted among the top achievements of German Art Nouveau tin . So it is not surprising if it was the renowned Cologne metal goods factory “ Orivit ” that bought “Orion” in 1906 and added around sixty models to its production program.

From January 1906 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Georg Friedrich Schmitt ran Orivit AG together with Heinrich Alle, previously WMF , under the supervision of WMF director Philipp Ullrich.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus Pese: Nuremberg art nouveau arts and crafts. Schnell & Steiner, Nuremberg 1989, ISBN 3-7954-0678-1 , p. 32f.

literature

  • Claus Pese: Nuremberg Art Nouveau handicrafts. Schnell & Steiner, Nuremberg 1989, ISBN 3-7954-0678-1 .
  • Claus Pese: The Nuremberg Art Nouveau handicrafts. Series of publications by the Nuremberg City Archives, 1980, ISBN 3-87432-073-1 .
  • Claus Pese: Art Nouveau from Nuremberg, art craft industrial culture . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-236-7 .
  • Helene Blum-Spicker, Dieter Pesch, Werner Schäfke : Orivit - tin of Art Nouveau from Cologne. JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-927396-46-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the Orion arts and crafts metal goods factory in Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1938
Place of death Nuremberg