Velten-Vordamm stoneware factories

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The Velten-Vordamm earthenware factories were a production facility for earthenware crockery and faience as well as other ceramic products until bankruptcy in 1931. The Velten production facility was built between 1913 and 1914 according to plans by Karl Walch (Düsseldorf) as a wall panel factory and has been connected since the early 1920s with the Dornburg ceramic workshops of the Bauhaus .

history

The Velten-Vordamm GmbH stoneware factory was founded by the engineer Hermann Harkort jun. from Driesen-Vordamm and businessman Heinrich Runde. The Vordamm stoneware factory already existed; With the construction of the Velten wall panel factory , the company's headquarters were relocated to Velten. In 1914 Heinrich Runde resigned as managing director, and businessman Adolf Kruckau was appointed as such. In 1918 the production was switched to the most modern ceramic manufacturing techniques for earthenware tableware. In 1919 Charlotte Hartmann took over the artistic direction of the company.

The connection established by Harkort with the Bauhaus brought Theodor Bogler to Velten in 1925 ; he became head of the model and mold workshop. In that year the engineer Heinz Welte took over the technical management. In 1928 Werner Burri moved from the Otto Lindig pottery from Dornburg an der Saale to Velten. In 1929 the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG examined the business prospects.

In 1930/1931 Charles Crodel and Thoma Grote developed paintable colored glazes for the design of coarse ceramic stoves and chimneys for export to the USA . Import restrictions led the company to ruin. In 1931 Heinz Welte took over the management. The factory went bankrupt and the employees were laid off.

But the former company employees did not give up: Adolf Kruckau saw as a shareholder of potteries Velten-Vordamm following a proposal of the former, from the Hael workshops in Marwitz acquired Superintendent August Wojak, a way to re-establishment in the old stove factory in Marwitz. To this end, he reached an agreement with Max Silberberg as the representative of the former employee Ms. Löbenstein , “possibly to reopen the Marwitz factory.” (September 13, 1933): The basis was the agreement negotiated that day, “that Ms. Dr. Löbenstein is willing to put RM 20,000.– into the business and the same amount should be brought in from our side or mine. ”But then it was said that Ms. Löbenstein intended to get married in Zurich. In any case, Ms. Löbenstein shut down operations in Marwitz in October 1933 and explored a new settlement in Jerusalem . In 1934, Hedwig Bollhagen , who had lost her job in the course of bankruptcy in 1931, was able to found the "HB workshops for artistic ceramics" in the old furnace factory with the support of friends. So she and her painting girls, "some of whom had already worked at Harkort in Velten ... now also from their memory, put on decors by Charlotte Hartmann ." As in Velten, August Wojak managed the operations, Theodor Bogler , Werner Burri , Charles Crodel and Thoma Grote - who already knew each other from the ceramic workshops of the Weimar Bauhaus, helped expand the company's program.

Employed at the Velten-Vordamm stoneware factory until 1931

Alexander Archipenko , Theodor Bogler , Hedwig Bollhagen , Werner Burri , Carl Otto Czeschka , Charles Crodel , Elisabeth Dörr, Ilse Fehling Ursula Fesca Werner Gothein , Thoma Grote , Luise Harkort , Charlotte Hartmann , Nora Herz , Margarete Heymann , Gerhard Marcks , Emanuel Josef Margold , Bruno Paul , Richard Scheibe

Continuation of production in the HB workshops for ceramics since 1934

With the resumption of production in the newly founded HB workshops for ceramics in Marwitz on May 1, 1934, the following were involved in building up the company on the basis of shapes and decors from Hael and Velten-Vordamm:

Theodor Bogler , Hedwig Bollhagen , Werner Burri , Charles Crodel , Nora Herz , Thoma Grote

literature

Gisela Reineking von Bock: Master of German Ceramics 1900 to 1950 , Cologne 1978, pp. 287–299.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tonindustrie-Zeitung 37, 1913, p. 1715
  2. ↑ Stoneware manufacturers Mendheim and Eisenecker in Vordamm near Driesen an der Netze.
  3. ↑ Keramisch Rundschau 21, 1913, p. 424
  4. ↑ https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/MC77FTKNFMWW5BJ2RN4MIHLORKGC7GTV BArch, R 8135 Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG
  5. ↑ Eva Samuel and Ulrike Thomas: Courage for a New Beginning: Life in Palestine from 1932 to 1948 , Berlin 2010, p. 61, letter of October 24, 1933.
  6. ↑ Gisela Reineking von Bock: Master of German Ceramics 1900–1950 . Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne 1978, p. 65, (exhibition catalog, Cologne, Overstolzenhaus-Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, February 10 to April 30, 1978).

Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 6.6 ″  N , 13 ° 10 ′ 7.5 ″  E