Bürgel Ceramic Museum

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Bürgel Ceramic Museum
Bürgel (Thuringia), the pottery museum.jpg
The ceramics museum in Bürgel (2003)
Data
place Bürgel coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 32.9 ″  N , 11 ° 45 ′ 18.7 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Art and History Museum
opening 1880
operator
Ceramics Museum Bürgel & Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV
management
Konrad Kessler
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-867214
Exhibits (2014)
Pottery wheel exhibit (2014)

The Bürgel Ceramics Museum is the only special museum for ceramics in Thuringia .

location

The museum is located in the center of the pottery town of Bürgel between Töpfergasse and the church square , immediately north of the Protestant town church St. Johannes .

history

The Bürgel Ceramics Museum was founded in 1880 as a sample collection of the pottery trade . The Fruits of Work exhibition organized by the trade association in the same year formed the basis for the collection . The work of the newly founded modeling school and the drawing lessons of the commercial advanced training and community school as well as products from other pottery areas were shown. Master potters such as CA Schack and Max Neumann were involved in the trade exhibition.

With the establishment of a ceramic museum, the development of the pottery and the pottery industry should be shown. In addition, the state government sought a connection between the pottery and modern arts and crafts. The museum initially contained Bürgel products and purchased items from foreign masters and factories. Thus it was both a pattern and an inspiration for the local potters. In the course of time, the museum changed its location several times. Since May 2003, the extensive collection has been in the renovated, listed old school building from the 18th century.

collection

The ceramics museum documents the history of the pottery trade in Bürgel from its (verifiable) beginnings in the middle of the 17th century to the present. A wide range of everyday ceramic vessels from the pre-industrial era is on display. In addition to simple earthenware , stoneware items are exhibited. As is typical for Bürgel, the blue apron is particularly popular . Part of the exhibition is also the so-called ceramic art, which shows the reorientation of the ceramics trade in Bürgel at the end of the 19th century. These are mainly elaborately decorated ornamental vessels, some of which were made using plaster molds and in several partial casts.

The work of Henry van de Velde and the Art Nouveau ceramics that were influenced by him are also discussed, which helped Bürgel to achieve worldwide fame and high export demand.

In addition, additional areas of the collection on German and Thuringian ceramics history, especially the second half of the 20th century, as well as contemporary ceramics using the example of the competitions for the Walter Gebauer Bürgel Ceramics Prize are maintained. Products from the Dornburg ceramics workshop from all periods of use from the Bauhaus to Otto Lindig (1895–1966) to the Körtings are a new area of ​​collection.

Special exhibitions show the history of individual potteries and manufactories or introduce individual ceramists. Other pottery centers in Thuringia and Germany also receive attention.

Walter Gebauer Ceramic Prize

The Walter Gebauer Bürgel Ceramics Prize commemorates the Bürgel master potter and ceramics teacher Walter Gebauer (1907–1989). The competition has been held annually since 1995 and the prize is awarded during the Bürgel pottery market. The only Central German ceramics prize is intended to honor qualitative ceramics with a high level of design. In addition to ART-regio and the Bürgeler Töpfermarkt , the Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV are also involved in the organization, including the selection of topics. In the course of the awarding of the prize, the pottery market taking place in parallel and the public competition exhibition attract several thousand visitors every year.

literature

to the ceramics museum Bürgel
  • Bürgel Ceramics Museum: Bürgel ceramics. A presentation of the history of the Bürgel pottery based on the collection of the Ceramic Museum. Liebeskind printing company, Apolda 1995, DNB 997953888
  • Konrad Kessler, Janin Pisarek: Pottery tracks in Bürgel 7: The Max Neumann pottery. Funding group Ceramics Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt e. V., 2017.
on the history of the Bürgel pottery trade
  • Martin Wendl, Detlef Marschall: Having fun collecting. Old Thuringian pottery art. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1988, ISBN 3-7352-0012-5 .
  • Thuringian state guild of potters and ceramists (Hrsg.): Pottery in Thuringia. Erfurt 2001, ISBN 3-00-007868-1 .

Web links

Commons : Ceramics Museum Bürgel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauhaus-Werkstatt-Projekt Website of the Dornburger Keramik Werkstatt project. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  2. ↑ Walter Gebauer Ceramic Prize Website of the Bürgel Ceramic Museum. Retrieved January 31, 2017.