Kayser tin
Kayserzinn is a pewter brand. It stands for extraordinary German Art Nouveau - tin .
history
Johann Peter (JP) Kayser managed his parents' metal goods factory in Krefeld, in the Oppum district . His brother Engelbert Kayser took over the artistic direction of the company from 1894. Numerous templates and models for the collection were created in his Cologne studio. Engelbert Kayser, who opened a luxury goods shop in Cologne on the corner of Hohe Strasse and Brückenstrasse in 1864, brought Art Nouveau, which had become very important around 1900, to tin production. He employed the sculptors and artists Hugo Leven , Karl Geyer, Johann Christian Kröner , Hermann Fauser and Karl Berghof . The pewter foundry was very successful with the production of Art Nouveau objects and employed up to 800 people during the weddings. The product range included lamps, candlesticks, picture frames, goblets, vases, tins, writing sets, bowls, coffee, tea, beer and liqueur service. The high formal and material quality of Kayserzinn was awarded gold medals at the world exhibitions in Paris in 1900 and in St. Louis in 1904 as well as at the epoch-making Turin exhibition of applied arts in 1902.
The tin was produced without the addition of lead ; antimony , a shiny silver and brittle semimetal was added. In the foundry, from 1894/95, the pewter objects produced were numbered consecutively on the underside next to the relief designation KAYSERZINN from the number 4000.
The Düsseldorf art caster Rolf Kayser comes from the pewter family.
literature
Exhibition catalog 2011: KAYSERZINN, Art Nouveau tin from Cologne. G. Dietrich / E. Wagner, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart
Web links
- Kölner Stadtanzeiger - A forgotten piece of art history
- Culture Online - Art Nouveau tin from Cologne
- BeyArs - Art Lexicon
- Product images Zanida
- Product images Abcap
Individual evidence
- ^ Website VGS VGS Kayser .
- ^ Anna Lewy: With best regards from the port. Art caster Rolf Kayser brings the gigantic sculptures by internationally acclaimed sculptors into their final form. ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2016 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. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung from Christmas 2009.
- ↑ Helga Meister: Great art from a single source. In the Medienhafen, the stars of art have their works made in the Kayser art foundry. ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2016 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. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of March 15, 2010.
