Porcelain Manufactory Burgau ad Saale Ferdinand Selle

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The Porcelain Manufactory Burgau ad Saale Ferdinand Selle was a factory in Burgau near Jena , which was founded in 1901 by Ferdinand Selle . As a member of the Deutscher Werkbund , founded in 1907 , he had good contacts to contemporary artists and was able to attract well-known designers for some services, with whom he achieved success in the professional world and at trade fairs: Henry van de Velde , Albin Müller , Albert Gessner, Franz Seeck , Fia and Rudolf Wille, Else Wenz-Viëtor and Erich Kuithan worked for Selles Manufaktur.

In his capacity as a consultant, the Belgian architect and designer van de Velde made several inspection trips through the region. In 1902 his path also took him to Jena-Burgau: “As far as I know, it is the first factory whose operation is solely focused on the manufacture of objects in the 'modern style'”, said Henry van de Velde, the artistic advisor of the Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, in his special report on the porcelain factories in the Grand Duchy. What was meant was modern and inexpensive household crockery, decorative porcelain, mocha cups and catering utensils. There were 14 different types of service with more than 50 decors.

The Burgauer Porzellan-Manufaktur and other companies took part in the 1906 collective exhibition of Weimar Decorative Arts in a uniformly furnished room based on a design by Prof. H. van de Velde in Dresden. This third German arts and crafts exhibition gave a decisive impetus for the establishment of the German Werkbund, to which Henry van de Velde had contributed in an advisory capacity and which Selle joined. Shapes and decors from Burgau's production were based on aesthetic positions as formulated by the Deutscher Werkbund: The focus was on the design, determined by the purpose, the material and the construction. In 1910, the manufactory designed Albin Müller's table, coffee and tea service and was immediately enthusiastically accepted at the Leipzig Autumn Fair . In the same year the service with the name Professor Müller won a gold medal at the world exhibition in Brussels . The Meißen porcelain factory had rejected the design a year earlier because it was unrealizable.

After the company went out of business in 1929, the Rudolstadt-based manufacturer Albert Stahl & Co. took over the molds and continued to produce into the 1950s. Although the Burgau Porcelain Manufactory produced very remarkable pieces in the short period of its existence, it has almost been forgotten today.

literature

  • Birgitt Hellmann, Bernd Fritz: Porcelain Manufactory Burgau ad Saale. Ferdinand Selle. Exhibition catalog. Jena 1997, ISBN 3-930128-31-4 .
  • Birgitt Hellmann: From the object to the catalog. The development of the production profile of the Porcelain Manufactory Burgau ad Saale "Ferdinand Selle". In: Thuringian museum books. Volume 18, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 52-55.
  • Birgitt Hellmann: On the state of research in the history of the Porcelain Manufactory Burgau as Ferdinand Selle. In: Porzellanland Thuringia. 2010, DNB 1020922966 , pp. 87-92.
  • Birgitt Hellmann, Ulf Häder et al: Porcelain Manufactory Burgau ad Saale Ferdinand Selle 1901–1929 . Exhibition catalog. Jena 2020, ISBN 978-3-942176-55-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parts from the coffee and mocha service "Professor Müller". In: Image index of art and architecture . Retrieved January 12, 2020 ( Bröhan Museum Berlin collection).