Ceramic workshop at the Bauhaus

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The workshop is located in the stables of the Dornburg castles

The ceramics workshop at the Bauhaus , also known as the Bauhaus pottery , existed from 1919 to 1925 in Dornburg as an outsourced workshop of the State Bauhaus in Weimar .

history

Walter Gropius, as director of the Bauhaus founded in 1919, commissioned the sculptor Gerhard Marcks to set up a ceramic workshop to train Bauhaus students. The first workshop only existed for a short time in a Weimar furnace factory and was relocated to Dornburg, around 30 km away, in 1920. This was based on contacts with the local master potter Max Krehan , who was willing to work with the Bauhaus. The workshop, initially with five students, was housed in the royal stables near the rococo palace in Dornburg . Work master was Max Krehan and form master Gerhard Marcks. In 1923 the workshop was divided into an apprentice workshop for training and a test and productive workshop. The latter corresponded to Walter Gropius' request to develop prototypes for industrial production. Then the journeymen Otto Lindig and Theodor Bogler designed a casting process for ceramics with which the mocha machine by Theodor Bogler and his combination teapot, assembled according to the modular principle, were created. The Bogler storage jars shown in the kitchen of the show house on the Horn at the Bauhaus exhibition in 1923 were among the first industrial goods from the ceramic workshop .

Kitchenette with Bogler storage jars in the Am Horn model house in Weimar

The workshop presented its products at trade fairs in Frankfurt / Main and Leipzig . In 1924 she was represented at the Berlin Werkbund exhibition Die Form . The workshop also maintained contacts with earthenware and porcelain factories, of which only a few manufacturers included the Bauhaus' idiosyncratic ceramic shapes in their production on a trial basis, including the State Porcelain Manufactory Berlin and the earthenware factories Velten-Vordamm .

When the Bauhaus moved its headquarters from Weimar to Dessau in 1925 , no pottery was established there. The ceramists from Dornburg founded their own workshops or worked together with the ceramic industry. Otto Lindig continued the Dornburg workshop independently. After the Second World War he left Dornburg to take up a teaching position at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . In the GDR , the pottery was preserved. The Berlin master potter Heiner-Hans Körting and later his son Ulrich Körting made vessels and sculptures there. The "Dornburger Owl" developed as a ceramic figure with a rotating head into a branded item in pottery.

Known students

literature

  • Magdalena Droste: The ceramic workshop in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 105–113

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