Marianne Meyfarth

Marianne Meyfarth (* 1898 in Glauchau ; † before 1992 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor , porcelain painter and art teacher .

Life

Meyfarth worked from May 5, 1919 to November 30, 1924 in the painting department of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory . After 1924 she continued her studies at the then Manufacture Nationale des Sèvres in the Atelier Fayence. In the 1960s she then worked as an art teacher in Berlin.

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Meissen - vase with decor by Marianne Meyfarth

In the painting department of the Meissen manufactory, Meyfarth designed new decors, especially for vases and vessels, often by Adelbert Niemeyer's hand . Her paintings are decorative and elegant and for the most part rely on a reduced color palette of red and gold on a white background. The paintings for Meissen convince through the inclusion of traditional elements of Meissen painting in new contexts. With details of the squirrel décor or the onion pattern appearing as the garment pattern of the figures shown, Meyfarth updated the Meissen treasure trove of shapes and thus proved that it is still valid. In the late 1920s she expanded her palette for her continued figurative representations to include other, sometimes richer colors.

Her works for the Meissen manufactory, which were committed to early Art Déco , achieve top prices at auctions today.

Meissen - vase with decor by Marianne Meyfarth

literature

• Association of Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (publisher): Käthe, Paula and all the rest . A reference work. Berlin 1992.
• Caren Marusch-Krohn: Meissen porcelain 1918–1933. The Pfeiffer time. Leipzig 1993, p. 55, p. 62, p. 156.

Individual evidence

1. ^ See for example Marusch-Crohn 1993, p. 55, plate 23.
2. ↑ See the illustrations in German Art and Decoration: Illustr. Monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art etc. artistic women work 28 (1928), pp. 268–271 online, last accessed on October 4, 2012.