Light porcelain

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Light porcelain
legal form GmbH
founding 1822
resolution 2014
Seat Skylights , Thuringia

Main building of the manufactory on Sonneberger Strasse (February 2013)

The beginnings of Lichte Porzellan GmbH in Lichte in Thuringia ( Oberlichte district ) go back to 1822.

history

Johann Heinrich Leder received a princely Schwarzburg privilege in 1822 and founded a porcelain factory . The factory was acquired by the Heubach brothers as early as 1840. Participation in the world exhibitions in Paris in 1900 and in St. Louis in 1904 brought the company awards. Under the significant influence of the sculptor Wilhelm Krieger, production was geared towards figurative pieces. In 1938 Otto Friedrich zu Ysenburg and Büdingen acquired the company. Shortly before the founding of the GDR, the property was expropriated in 1948 and converted to the Zierporzellanwerk Lichte (VEB). In 1991 the family bought back the property, but failed with the realignment of the porcelain division, so that in 1994 employees took over the location. In 2012 bankruptcy had to be filed; two years later the new PKS (porcelain, ceramic and silver) production company filed for bankruptcy. The production was closed.

The Museum Eisfeld (Museum Otto Ludwig) in Schloss Eisfeld has a larger collection of light porcelain .

Artist

  • Albert Schünzel, plate painter , teacher of the A. u. L. Scherf
  • Albert Scherf (1876–1953), porcelain plate painter
  • Louis Scherf (1870–1955), porcelain plate painter, awards: u. a. Gold medal at the World Exhibition in St. Louis in 1904
  • Walter Arnold, Alfred Thiele, Walter Howard, Rudolph Oelzner and others provided designs for porcelain sculptures at the request of the VEB Schaubach Kunst manufacture in 1956. (Source: Fine Arts, 1957, p. 402)

literature

  • Dagmar Lekebusch: Heubach Brothers: a Thuringian porcelain company and its characters through the ages (1843–1938). At the same time Diss. Univ. Hamburg 2004 under the title: The porcelain figurines by Gebrüder Heubach in Lichte (Thuringia) through the ages (1843–1938). Hain, Weimar / Jena 2005, ISBN 978-3-89807-068-3

See also

Web links

literature

  • Wilhelm Stieda: The beginnings of porcelain manufacture on the Thuringian Forest , Jena 1902, p. 71 ff.
  • Gebr. Heubach AG (ed.): Festschrift on the 100th anniversary , Lichte 1922.

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '5.5 "  N , 11 ° 10' 44.4"  E