Kiel art ceramics

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The Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG produced fine and building ceramics from 1924 to 1930.

history

Advertisement by Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG, with the manufactory's logo (Kiel city coat of arms and abbreviation “KKK”), 1924

In May 1924, the Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG (KKK), which emerged from the company Kadow-Skulpturenwerke AG , started production in Kiel - Gaarden , Rathausstrasse 4. "The aim was not only to revive a handicraft industry with a programmatic link to the Kiel faience manufacture of the 18th century [...], but also to manufacture products that should make the name of Kiel known beyond the national borders." With this objective Artistic sculptures, decorative and utilitarian objects at a high artistic level as well as tiled stoves and building ceramics were produced in the manufactory. Numerous clinker expressionist facades and clinker-plastic building decorations that are still often present, mainly in northern Germany, demonstrate the efficiency of the Kiel building ceramics.

From 1924 to 1929 the KKK was represented at numerous exhibitions and trade fairs: B. 1924 Leipzig, Grassimesse; 1924 Kiel, Thaulow Museum, autumn fair; 1925 Kiel, Nordic Fair; 1926 Berlin, brick building exhibition, 1928/29 Chicago, New York “International Exhibition of Ceramic Art”.

After the successful first few years, a crisis emerged for the company as early as 1927, on the one hand because of the general economic situation, on the other hand because of operational problems. The attempt at a new beginning, suspected in specialist circles, obviously did not take place. The NKK mentioned in this context is likely to be the Norddeutsche Kunstkeramik Kiel manufactory. After production was stopped, the KKK filed for bankruptcy in 1930; In 1932 the company was liquidated.

Artist

Philipp Danner (1893–1964), a ceramist and former operations manager of the Ettlingen branch of the then Grand Ducal majolica factory in Karlsruhe, was appointed director and artistic director. Hedwig Marquardt (1884–1969) and Augusta (Gust, Gustl) Kaiser (1895–1932) followed Danner's call to Kiel, coming from Karlsruhe, and set themselves the task of getting production going with him. As early artists, Kaiser and Marquardt created the majority of the initial fine ceramics collection by March 1925, based on the modern design language of Art Déco and shaped the form and style of Kiel art ceramics. Kaiser also came out with some notable designs for building ceramics.

Other well-known artists worked for Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG in the fields of fine and building ceramics. They include, for example, Ferdinand Flosdorf (1881–1956), Ludwig Kunstmann (1877–1961), Richard Kuöhl (1880–1961), Hans Laubner (1884–1968), Gertrud Wiebke Schröder (1897–1977), Karl Taggeselle (1898– ?), who headed the fine ceramics department from 1926 and Fritz Theilmann (1902–1991), from April 1925 head of the building ceramics department, which was henceforth of greater importance for the Kiel manufactory, and Lola Töpke (1891–1945).

Successor operation

The Kieler Kunst-Keramik-Werke at Oldesloer Straße 4 were completely destroyed in the air raid on Kiel on May 14, 1943.

In 1933 the businessman Edmund Jensen leased the factory building from the city of Kiel and founded the Kieler Kunstkeramik Edmund Jensen Kiel, the so-called Second KKK. Fine and building ceramics were produced. The artistic director of the fine ceramics department was initially the ceramist Fritz Gniesmer (1903–1975), from 1935 the potter Andreas Kastl. Utility ceramics with a clear, simple design were produced without the high creative demands of the Kiel art ceramics of the Art Deco phase. The ceramic objects are mostly unglazed. There are also single or multi-colored glazed pieces, some of which are decorated with fine polychrome painting. The painter Dorothea Henschel-Kastl was responsible for coloristically demanding work.

One focus was on the building ceramics department headed by the sculptor Alwin Blaue (1896–1958). The Kiel sculptor and artisan Fritz During (1910–1993) worked as a freelancer for a variety of building ceramics, some of which are still preserved today. Franz Blazek (1887–1941) also delivered numerous ceramic works for the Second KKK until 1937.

In 1943 the factory buildings were destroyed by an air raid. After the war, the company Kieler Kunstkeramik Edmund Jensen Kiel was deleted with effect from December 1, 1941.

literature

  • Dörte Beier: Kiel in the Weimar Republic. The urban development under Willy Hahn from 1921 to 1930. (= Bau + Kunst. Volume 7). Kiel 2004, ISBN 3-933598-86-9 , S. 2018, 2019, Fig. 85.
  • Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll : Kiel art ceramics. In: Alexander Koch (Hrsg.): German art and decoration, Illustrated monthly books for modern painting, sculpture, architecture. Darmstadt 1926, issue 12, pp. 389-394. with numerous illustrations
  • Thomas Habeck: The "Kieler Kunstkeramik AG" and its relationship to the architecture of the 1920s in Schleswig-Holstein. Dissertation . Univ. Kiel, Kiel 1982.
  • Joachim and Angelika Konietzny: Augusta Kaiser - the Gustl Kaiser of Kiel art ceramics - and her life with Hedwig Marquardt. A search for clues. Pansdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034515-9 .
  • Joachim and Angelika Konietzny (eds.), Ostholstein-Museum Eutin (ed.): Exhibition publication Kieler Kunst-Keramik 1924–1930. Augusta Kaiser, Hedwig Marquardt and other artists , essays by Joachim and Angelika Konietzny and Laurence Marsh, Eutin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-047621-1 .
  • Joachim and Angelika Konietzny (eds.): Augusta Kaiser, sculptor and ceramicist. Your work for the Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG. Essay by Laurence Marsh. Reprint of the net price lists of Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG as a separate supplement. Pansdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-055613-5 .
  • Bärbel Manitz, Hans-Günter Andresen: Kiel art ceramics. (= Special publications of the Society for Kiel City History. Volume 49). Neumünster 2004, ISBN 3-529-02662-X .
  • Otto Riedrich: New building ceramics in Schleswig-Holstein with an insight into contemporary architecture. In: Schleswig-Holstein Yearbook. 1927, pp. 23-38.
  • Maria-Gesine Thies: The Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG: Ceramics of the 1920s in Kiel. Dissertation. Univ. Kiel, Kiel 1988.

Exhibitions

  • 2015 Kieler Kunst-Keramik 1924 - 1930. Augusta Kaiser, Hedwig Marquardt and other artists. Ostholstein Museum Eutin, February 27 to April 26, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Kieler Kunst-Keramik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holger Behling: Kiel art ceramics. Forms between purpose and longing. In: Kultur Journal. Rendsburg 1990, No. 6, pp. 46-50.
  2. ↑ Konrad Strauss: German ceramics of the present. Halle / Saale 1927, p. 21.
  3. ↑ E. Rich. Schubert: Why brick building? An answer from the history and performance of the brick industry. Berlin 1926, pp. 37, 59, 77.
  4. ↑ Catalog Stadtarchiv Kiel, signature 54296 as well as a six-part tile picture with the signature Norddeutsche Kunstkeramik Kiel and the label Norddeutsche Kunstkeramik Kiel-Hassee Colonnenweg 4 on the reverse
  5. ↑ Konrad Strauss, p. 22.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll: New Schleswig-Holstein Arts and Crafts. In: The Book Community. H. 8, 1926, p. 340.
  7. ↑ E. Rich. Schubert, p. 50, Fig. Milchhalle Hirte in Hamburg-Altona (destroyed)
  8. ↑ [1] , accessed on March 1, 2015