Siegfried Möller
Siegfried Möller (born February 1, 1896 in Altona ; † September 13, 1970 in Kiel ) was a German sculptor , ceramist and university professor.
Life
He was the son of Adolf Möller and his wife Bertha and completed a degree at the Art and Literary School in Altona. In the First World War he was drafted as a soldier and lived around 1919 at Behnstrasse 19 in Altona. From 1926 he was initially the artistic director of a factory at the Hirschauer Steingutfabriken C. & E. Carstens . From 1926 to 1927 Möller was artistic director of Rheinsberger Keramik, a subdivision of the Rheinsberger Keramikfabrik C. & E. Carstens. In 1930 he moved to Elsterwerda and set up a ceramics workshop there. Here he began to manufacture ceramic designs that were among the best that were made in Elsterwerda. He left Elsterwerda as early as 1931 and moved to the Elmshorn stoneware factory C. & E. Carstens, where he stayed until 1931.
Siegfried Möller was commissioned by five different earthenware factories between 1923 and 1935 to set up art ceramic workshops. Möller also worked for other manufactories, for example in the 1920s he delivered designs for Hamelner Töpferei GmbH and from 1936 to 1969 for the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory . From 1936 was a teacher at the Nordische Kunsthochschule Bremen, today the Hochschule für Künste Bremen . After the Second World War , Möller worked for the ceramics manufacture Kupfermühle (KMK). In 1955 he created one of his best-known designs for the KMK, the Siena service, which was on sale until 1970. Liebfriede Bernstiel , Walburga Külz , Elisabeth Pluquet-Ulrich, Ingrid Fechner-Ahlers and Siegfried Schneider-Döring were pupils of Siegfried Möller.
Literature and Sources
- Rolf Hetsch: Siegfried Möller: Faience. Berlin: Riemerschmidt [1941] (workshop report of the art service 3)
- Ernst Rump (greetings), Kay Rump (arr.): The new Rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Revised New edition Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, p. 303, ISBN 3-529-02792-8 (EA 1912).
Web links
- Literature by and about Siegfried Möller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Susanne Kempf: The earthenware artist Siegfried Möller Oberpfalz Medien , October 28, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siena in the collection of MoMA
- ↑ Horst Makus: Ceramics of the 50s. Shapes, colors and decors. P. 19.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möller, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, ceramist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1970 |
| Place of death | Kiel |