HB workshops for ceramics
| HB workshops for ceramics GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1934 |
| Seat | Marwitz , Germany |
| management | Steffen Blochel (Managing Director) |
| Branch | Ceramics manufacturer |
| Website | www.hedwig-bollhagen.de |
The HB workshops for ceramic GmbH in Brandenburg Marwitz were in 1934 by Hedwig Bollhagen (1907-2001) and Heinrich sign established (1895-1978). Hedwig Bollhagen was artistic director until shortly before her death in 2001.
The HB workshops manufacture handcrafted utensils and sophisticated building ceramics in the listed tiled stove factory in Marwitz. The building ceramics of the workshops are u. a. Use in the field of monument preservation or restoration . Shaped bricks of various formats and profiles are made by hand in one-off or small series. They were installed z. B. in the Friedrichswerder Church and at the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin , in Chorin Monastery and at Potsdam's Sanssouci Palace .
history
Following a tip from her friend Nora Herz, Hedwig Bollhagen was able to resume production of the disused Haël workshops for artistic ceramics founded by Margarete Heymann and Gustav Loebenstein in 1934 through the new HB workshops . The new GmbH enabled the gradual reinstatement of previous company employees as well as a new product line - HB ceramics - by taking over employees from the Velten-Vordamm stoneware factory, which was closed in 1931 (including Theodor Bogler , Werner Burri ).
Like Margarete Heymann and the two employees mentioned, the ceramic master Thoma Gräfin Grote , developer and commercial assistant of the company since 1934/1935, was trained by Gerhard Marcks in the ceramics workshop of the State Bauhaus on the Dornburg . The painter Charles Crodel (1894–1973), who was friends with Gerhard Marcks, promoted the company since 1935 . He opened up the field of building ceramics and at the same time brought in the industrial experience he gained in the United Lusatian Glass Works in decor development ( Wilhelm Wagenfeld ). After the war, Heinrich Schild, who was a member of the NSDAP , fled to the West. Hedwig Bollhagen took over the business alone.
In 1972 the workshops were nationalized , but Hedwig Bollhagen remained the artistic director. In 1992 the company was finally re- privatized . After Bollhagen's death, the artist Heidi Manthey took on the role of artistic director.
Building ceramics
The HB workshops are equipped with building ceramics and a. represented at the following structures:
- St. Catherine's Church in Brandenburg / Havel (around 1968)
- Ev. Church of St. Peter and Paul in Wusterhausen (1965–1967)
- Old Castle (Freyenstein) (1969–1973)
- Australian Embassy in Berlin-Pankow (1973/1974, structural walls made of cross stones in iron frames on the facade)
- Iraqi Embassy in the GDR in Berlin-Pankow (1974, brick exterior facade)
- Old Cape Arkona lighthouse (1977–1988)
- Red City Hall (1982–1990)
- Borsig estate in Groß Behnitz (1992/1993)
- Retirement home in Radensleben Castle (1993)
- St. Mary's Church in Neubrandenburg (around 1995)
- S-Bahn station Berlin-Pankow (1997)
- Portal ruin Anhalter Bahnhof (2004/2005)
History discussion
In connection with the gradual revitalization of production and the reinstatement of the employees of the two closed art ceramic factories Steingutfabriken Velten-Vordamm GmbH (1931) and Haël workshops for artistic ceramics (1933) through the mediation of the Cologne ceramist Nora Herz through the then 26-year-old Hedwig Bollhagen In 1934, following the exhibition on the founder's 100th birthday , there was talk of expropriation and Aryanization in the sense of the ordinance on the elimination of Jews from German economic life of November 12, 1938. At least two Jewish ceramists, Margarete Heymann and Nora Herz from Cologne, were involved in the establishment and profit of the HB workshops until at least the end of 1936 .
See also
Web links
- Website of the HB workshops for ceramics
- Simone Ladwig-Winters: Expert opinion on the "Aryanization" allegations against Hedwig Bollhagen , Potsdam 2008.