Murals made from Meissen porcelain

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Part of the three-part porcelain picture at the Franziskaneum in Meißen from 1907
Wall picture section on the outer facade of the exhibition hall of the Meissen porcelain factory
Signature of a column cladding by Rudolf Sitte in Dresden from 1958

Murals made of Meissen porcelain are picture walls that were produced in the Meissen porcelain factory . They are considered a special kind of artistic wall design and are created as small-format wall pictures or as large-format picture walls, mostly as commissioned works, by the respective artist or several artists. The individual works are mostly found as decorations on the facades of residential and commercial buildings, but they are also attached to the interior of buildings. In the interior, such murals can also be found as decorative cladding of pillars and supporting columns. Most of these works are carried out on special tiles or ceramic plates and often bear the signature of the artist and the symbol of the manufactory, the crossed course swords . This special kind of murals also expressively reproduce the historical and social developments with their associated changes.

history

In 1886, the Bavarian King Ludwig II had flower paintings on porcelain pictures made for Herrenchiemsee Palace in the Meissen manufactory. Around 1900 there were a large number of porcelain wall pictures with different motifs in Dresden Central Station . They were all lost as a result of the devastating air raids on Dresden in 1945. The first larger mural made of Meissen porcelain was probably made in spring 1903 and can still be seen today. When the works inspector of the Meissen Manufactory at the time, Bergrat Julius Otto Ferdinand Heinze, learned that a more permanent variant was being sought for the prince's procession in Dresden, which was executed in sgraffito painting , a test picture with the motif of Margrave Friedrich the Serious was created on ceramic plates under his direction . It still adorns part of the facade on the west side of the manufactory building. Another sample picture of the prince's procession, which is no longer preserved today, was right next to it. The sample pictures were convincing and in 1907 the first monumental mural made of Meissen porcelain was created with the Prince's procession.

Other murals - including the epitaphs and the triumphal arch of the war memorial site in the Meißner Nikolaikirche - were created in Meißen between 1907 and 1929 and have been preserved. Until 1945 there were no noteworthy designs of large-format murals. It was only with the monumental mural, the so-called “Lingner Frieze” by Max Lingner at the House of Ministries in East Berlin , that larger designs for murals made of Meissen porcelain began again in 1952. For this purpose, a separate department “Artistic Wall Design” was set up in the factory in 1953. In the GDR almost countless porcelain pictures were created on facades and works for the interior design of buildings with a wide variety of motifs and manufacturing techniques.

Many of these murals were lost after reunification , renovation work or the demolition of the buildings. Political interests were often asserted when it was originally installed and finally also when it was torn down. However, many porcelain murals are now being painstakingly restored and have been preserved, some are listed . Smaller murals for private purposes and monumental works made from Meissen porcelain are still in demand today. For example, since 2002 a 90 square meter screen has adorned the reception hall of Dresden-Neustadt train station with motifs of Saxon palaces, castles and gardens.

technology

The mostly individual tiles, slabs or hand-cut elements are decorated and fired using a wide variety of techniques. The motif is usually put on numbered cardboard by the artist himself on a scale of 1: 1 and with the help of painters and several assistants, which is later transferred to the tiles or slabs. Depending on the motif, plastic elements are also used on the work itself. The colors are designed in under and on glaze tones . Enamel colors with gold heights are also used. Firing takes place in different processes, depending on the requirements of the individual plant - often in sharp fire with up to three firing processes. Tiles are usually attached without joints, while panels are attached with a joint. It may take several years of work and several employees to create a larger porcelain mural.

  • Porcelain murals on the facade of the factory in Meißen

  • The procession of princes on the outer wall of the stable yard in Dresden's Augustusstrasse is considered the largest porcelain picture in the world.

  • Mural friendship between nations by E. G. Clauss in Eisenhüttenstadt from 1959

  • Detail from the mural Friendship of Nations from Eisenhüttenstadt by E. G. Clauß

  • Wall cladding made of Meissen porcelain in Berlin, Frankfurter Allee 22

  • Balcony cladding with porcelain plates in Berlin, Frankfurter Allee 22

  • Signature of a pillar cladding by EG Clauß from 1958

  • Porcelain screen at the Meissen City Theater

  • Image detail at the City Theater Meißen

  • Mural on Meissen tiles in Specks Hof Leipzig

Tangible murals

bad Homburg

Bad Reichenhall

Berlin

  • The so-called “Lingner Frieze” is located at today's Federal Ministry of Finance on Wilhelmstrasse, at the corner of Leipziger Strasse . The artist Max Lingner created this 72 square meter, monumental mural called the Building of the Republic in 1952. When the design was transferred to 1,800 square porcelain plates, 14 painters from the manufactory assisted the artist.
  • At Frankfurter Allee 22, green balcony claddings with stylized plant and flower motifs are attached to porcelain plates from the Meissen manufactory. On the bay window cladding of the house you can also see bird, ear and plant motifs, which the artist Eduard Gerhard Clauss also created in red in 1951.
  • Tierpark Berlin -Friedrichsfelde: At the Alfred-Brehm-Haus there is a depiction of a saber-toothed tiger on cut plates by Eduard Gerhard Clauß from 1959.
  • Tierpark Berlin-Friedrichsfelde: In the cafeteria, Eduard Gerhard Clauß also designed the column cladding with white relief ornaments. These relief-like plates showing fish date from 1962.
  • The once in the pedestrian tunnel of Alexanderplatz mounted eight porcelain pictures with historical views of Alexanderplatz remained with the closure of the tunnel of 2006. Their history and whereabouts are listed under tile pictures from Alexanderplatz .
  • In 1981, Rudi Stolle created four wall designs from Meissen porcelain for the stairwells of the Charité extension . A total of 1100 porcelain plates were used on 66 square meters.

Coswig (Saxony)

  • For the wedding room in the new town hall of Coswig (Saxony) , Heinz Werner decorated a three-part screen with fairytale themes and scenes from the Orient and Moritzburg Castle near Dresden in 2000 .

cottbus

  • In 1968, the then new consumer goods store, the artist Kurt Heinz Sieger created a six-meter-long porcelain mural in blue tones. It shows a historical view of the city of Cottbus at the beginning of the 18th century.
  • The almost 13 meter long screen on the city wall was also made by Kurt Heinz Sieger. It was created in 1969 on Meissen porcelain plates and is entitled "From the Spreewald".

Dresden

  • Fürstenzug in Augustusstraße: It is considered the largest porcelain picture in the world and was installed there in its present form in 1907. It comes from the artist Wilhelm Walther .
  • Reception hall in Dresden-Neustadt train station : The screen “Saxony's most beautiful palaces, castles and gardens” is around 90 square meters and was inaugurated in 2002.
  • At the former main post office in Dresden 6 on Königsbrücker Straße , the artist Eduard Gerhard Clauß designed the 37.5 square meter main entrance facade of the building in 1964 with porcelain plates bearing abstract shapes. The underglaze colors are white, gray, black and blue.
  • At the Stephanuskirche in the Kleinzschachwitz district there has been a semicircular porcelain picture made of hand-cut plates by Gerhard Schiffner above the door since 1958. It shows the "Stoned Stephen".
  • For the Hotel Bellevue , the artist Klaus Dennhardt created an eight meter long and 2.80 meter high ornamental wall design made of relief-like Meissen porcelain plates in 1985, which is reminiscent of a paper structure with its shadows and three-dimensional layers.
  • In 1973, Friedrich Press created a Pietà from Meissen porcelain for the Nepomuk Chapel of the Catholic Court Church . It was consecrated on February 13, 1976 and commemorates the victims of war and all unjust violence.
  • For the café in the rose garden on the Neustadt side, Rudi Stolle and Ludwig Zepner created a porcelain mural with rose and dog rose motifs in 1976 that is very effective and three-dimensional.
  • Column cladding for various buildings on the Altmarkt was designed around 1958 with hand-formed porcelain plates from Meißen by Rudolf Sitte and Eduard Gerhard Clauß. Some rooms were rebuilt or made smaller after the fall of the Wall. All the furnishings in the former shops that were clad with porcelain plates were destroyed and numerous porcelain plates were damaged or simply knocked off. Preserved porcelain plates are often drilled into by the current users of the rooms in order to attach their own house advertising. There is no recognizable use of a listed building.

Eisenhüttenstadt

  • The artist Eduard Gerhard Clauß created the mural “Family” on the facade of a block of flats in 1959 on Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse in Eisenhüttenstadt . On the opposite side is the mural “Friendship of the Nations”. Both murals have since been extensively renovated. In the former department store restaurant, Clauß has clad four pillars with porcelain plates from the Meissen porcelain factory.

Fellbach

  • For the Stadtsparkasse in Fellbach , Volkmar Bretschneider created an approx. 3 square meter screen made of hand-cut elements from the Meissen manufactory. In the picture it symbolizes the passing time with a large clock pendulum. Furthermore, striking towers, gables and facades of the city are shown.

Hanseatic City of Rostock

  • In the Warnemünde district of the Hotel Stolteraa there is a wall design made by Friedrich Press consisting of six marine animals on black slate, which was created in 1966 for the former guest house.

Hildesheim

  • In 1978 the artist Peter Strang created a six-meter-wide screen for the Christophorusstift Hildesheim entitled "Landscape with Sun". He combined 412 irregularly cut porcelain plates with 46 hand-modeled elements made of porcelain stoneware from the Meissen manufactory. In 1980 Peter Strang created the altar cladding with 16 relief panels and two candlesticks with an angel figure.

Leipzig

  • Leipzig Opera House : In the foyer, the cloakroom and the stairwells, Eduard Gerhard Clauß designed the pillar cladding with relief-like matt white porcelain plates.
  • In the church of St. Bonifatius in the Connewitz district , the artist Friedrich Press created the fourteen Stations of the Cross from Böttger stoneware in 1961/1962 .
  • Specks Hof : In 1983 Heinz-Jürgen Böhme designed a mural made of porcelain on behalf of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in Leipzig. It shows historical house facades on Nikolaistrasse and Reichsstrasse around 1880. The picture is 7.70 meters long and 1.15 meters high. The picture frieze is now surrounded by other works of art.

Meissen

  • Porzellanmanufaktur Meißen : a sample picture of the Dresden prince procession made of 50 ceramic tiles with Margrave Friedrich the Serious on the courtyard facade of the manufactory from 1903; on the east facade two pictures with 88 porcelain tiles each, both of which show the crossed swords with the "Pfeiffer point" above.
    • At the entrance area for visitors, on the facade of the exhibition hall in Talstrasse, there are various murals made of porcelain plates. A mural shows the different forms of design of the "Blue Swords" in the history of the manufacture and was created by the artist Olaf Fieber .
    • In the manufactory's exhibition hall there is a cobalt blue "putti frieze" below the ceiling; Design by Karl Ludwig Augusthabenhagen from 1916.
    • Also in the exhibition hall is an organ with a prospect made of porcelain pipes by the artist Ludwig Zepner. The insides of the doors were decorated by the artist Christoph Ciesielski in 2000 with hand-cut porcelain.
    • In 1971, Peter Strang created the three-dimensional mural “Midsummer Night's Dream” with figures from the world of elves for the manufactory's former clubhouse café.
    • In the foyer of the "Haus Meissen" world of experience, there has been a mural consisting of 72 porcelain plates since 2019. 72 colorful birds from all over the world are shown in flight in a kind of sky section. The mural is 2.40 meters by 5.40 meters and can be purchased for 490,000 euros. But you can also buy individual parts from the picture. Up to fifteen painters were sometimes employed on the large mural. They worked on it for nine months from the idea to the finished porcelain mural.
  • The war memorial site in the Nikolaikirche Meißen is furnished with epitaphs and a triumphal arch by Emil Paul Börner from 1929.
  • Since 1907, there have been three separate murals made of square porcelain tiles in the gym of the Franziskaneum in KÄNDERSTRASSE. Groups of boys are shown in a sporting competition. The murals were attached at a height of about seven meters. What is noticeable here is a visually strong connection with the Fürstenzug in Dresden. The design artist was Martin Wiegand, who worked for the Meissen porcelain factory from 1907 to 1909.
  • In 1958, H. Aschmann and G. Schiffner installed five wall motifs on the outside facade of the city theater.
  • In 1960, Friedrich Press created the large-scale sculpture "Resurrecting Christ" from unglazed white porcelain for the Catholic Church of St. Benno in the Triebischtal district .
  • For the Sparkasse Meißen, the artist Olaf Fieber created a mural made of hand-cut elements in 1994, which is supposed to symbolize the Elbe river as well as the cathedral, Albrechtsburg and Frauenkirche of the city of Meißen. The picture was damaged during the flood in 2002 and later restored. The mural is 2 meters high and 6 meters wide.
  • In the St. Agnes chapel in the St. Benno retirement home in Meißen there is a two by two meter altarpiece made of Meissen porcelain, which Ludwig Zepner created in 1991 with the title "Light of Life".
    • The fourteen Stations of the Cross by the artist Olaf Fieber are also located in the St. Agnes Chapel.

Weimar

  • A picture wall entitled “Leisure Time” was created in 1970 by the artists Ludwig Zepner, Heinz Werner and Peter Strang for what was then the GDR College of Construction, today's Bauhaus University . It consists of 960 individual panels and is five meters wide and two meters high. It shows an autumnal park landscape with two groups of students walking and communicating. The porcelain plates remained unglazed. The mural, on loan from the Meissen Manufactory, is freely accessible in the university building during opening hours.

Wurzburg

  • A double-walled sculpture made of Meissen porcelain by Olaf Fieber has stood in the Julius Hospital in Würzburg since 2000. The total of 16 porcelain elements are attached to two concrete slabs, which symbolize a door that is always open.

Murals that are not freely accessible

Berlin

Picture frieze "From the life of the GDR" in the banquet hall of the former State Council building
  • In 1960, Eduard Gerhard Clauss installed a 52 square meter porcelain picture with a stylized ear motif on plates from the Meissen manufactory in the Bärensaal of the Rotes Rathaus .
  • In the child's former house on Strausberger Platz, there are several column panels and 20 stylized landscapes made of Meissen porcelain plates and tiles. In addition, there is the elevator framing of the former children's department store. Toy motifs such as construction sets, toy trains and dolls or landscapes of the world such as alpine peaks, ancient ruins and Mediterranean scenes were shown. The designs from 1954 come from Eduard Gerhard Clauß.
  • In a former furniture store at Frankfurter Tor , Eduard Gerhard Clauß designed the wall paneling in the associated restaurant from 456 individual porcelain plates in 1957.
  • In a former restaurant, also at Frankfurter Tor, there were eleven murals by Eduard Gerhard Clauss in 1955 with views of German cities, including Hamburg, Stralsund, Dresden, Tangermünde, Frankfurt am Main, Ulm and Munich. The works were executed in underglaze blue painting and were between one and 2.5 meters wide. It has not yet been possible to conclusively clarify whether these murals have been preserved.
  • In the former State Council building , Eduard Gerhard Clauß created various elevator frames and wall cladding from panels with line ornaments and gold decoration between 1962 and 1964. That is a total of two hundred and forty square meters on approx. 17,000 individual porcelain plates with gold lines. For the banquet hall, the artist Günther Brendel created the picture frieze "From the life of the GDR", which was transferred to 2100 porcelain plates and attached.
  • In 1958, the artist Eduard Gerhard Clauß designed eight panels for the decorative wall fountains with different antique and modern motifs in the stairwells and corridors of the former communal vocational school for telecommunications and postal services in Gudvanger Straße. The artist K. Schwarz from Berlin designed the ground floor with 16 abstract elements.

Dresden

  • In the former Institute for Labor Economics , five column and pillar cladding with relief-like porcelain plates based on a design by Eduard Gerhard Clauß in 1961 were installed. One remained after the renovation in 2013. They are designed in yellow, red, white and blue and show gear and wave ornaments. The blue plates that were once on the facade, on the other hand, were not from the Meissen porcelain factory.
  • In the shops on the Altmarkt in Seestrasse 12 and 14 and on Dr.-Külz-Ring 13, four pillar cladding made of Meissen porcelain has been preserved. These are works by Eduard Gerhard Clauß and Rudolf Sitte from 1958.
  • In the former engineering school for traffic engineering there is a wall design by the artist Herbert Aschmann from 1958. You can see a “winged wheel” in the stairwell, the symbol of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The picture has a size of 26.2 square meters.
  • In the 1970s, several murals made of Meissen porcelain were created for the Robotron combine , mostly based on designs by Heinz Werner, Ludwig Zepner and Peter Strang. Here are two examples. For the club room, a mural depicting historical buildings in Dresden. For the dining room a mural with three-dimensional flowers on a total area of ​​21.85 square meters.
  • In the government district , in the State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture, there is a two-part screen by Michael Freudenberg from 1999 in the dining room of the building. It is entitled “Saxon Landscapes”.

Halle (Saale)

  • In the former Interhotel Stadt Halle (Saale) in 1966, Eduard Gerhard Clauß created seven decorative pillar cladding with a structured white surface made of Meissen porcelain. The Halle artist Gerhard Geyer and the painter Hans Roth also created a thirteen-meter-wide screen made of semi-plastic porcelain elements in 1966. Scenes from work, culture, education and leisure are depicted in the half relief.

Karlsruhe

For the Energie Baden-Württemberg AG building in Karlsruhe , the artist Clapeko van der Heide created a screen with the title “Ordered Power” made of Meissen porcelain in 2000. The picture is approx. 12 meters wide and consists of 24 individual panels.

Leipzig

  • For the exhibition in honor of the 125th birthday of Max Adolf Pfeiffer, the former director of the manufactory in Meißen, Michael Freudenberg created a two-part wall design for the Grassimuseum with the title "Formcut 1" and "Formcut 2".

Luebben

  • In 1969 the artist Dieter Dressler created two wall designs from cut porcelain elements for the school in the city of Lübben . You can see a male and female figure in a beautiful landscape.

Meissen

  • On the premises of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, there is a mural made of 70 porcelain tiles showing two female figures and the Saxon coat of arms, along with the crossed swords. The picture was probably made before the First World War. Another mural with the name “Harvest” consists of half-cut forms and is a work by G. Schiffner from 1958. It is located in a production building of the manufactory and depicts three female figures.
  • In the company casino of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory there are several picture walls made of hand-cut cuts by the artists Rudi Stolle, Peter Strang, Volkmar Bretschneider and Heinz Werner.

Lutherstadt Wittenberg

  • In 1967, a 24 square meter decorative wall made of colored porcelain plates was installed in the Piesteritz district for the then rubber works. The design came from Eduard Gerhard Clauss.

Riesa

  • Gerhard Schiffner created a mural made of Meissen porcelain in 1961 for the facade of the Kulturhaus von Stahl- und Walzwerk Riesa . It shows two girls on the beach with a sailboat.

Schwedt / Oder

  • In 1970, Gerhard Schiffner created a large-format mural for the dining room of the former district hospital, today's Asklepios Klinikum Uckermark . It shows birds, fish and various plants under a shining sun. Today the premises belong to the clinic pharmacy.

Murals no longer preserved

Berlin

  • In the Palace of the Republic , the dining facilities in particular were equipped with decorative wall designs by the artist group of the Meissen Manufactory. A sixteen-meter-long mosaic panel wall made of Meissen porcelain with a sepia-colored underglaze painting by Heinz Werner adorned the mocha bar of the house. The milk bar was designed by Rudi Stolle. The counter and walls were decorated with small porcelain plates. Various shades of blue were used in underglaze painting. In the restaurant there were wall designs made of Meissen porcelain, which were designed jointly by Peter Strang and Ludwig Zepner. There was also work in porcelain stoneware that was combined with white glazed shaped cuts. Parts of it came to the Federal Ministry of Finance in a slightly reduced form.

Dresden

  • 21 tile pictures in the first and second class waiting room at Dresden Central Station . In the Weesenstein dining room there was another screen made of Meissen porcelain with motifs from Saxony. The pictures were destroyed in World War II.
  • The houses built on the east and west side of the Altmarkt in the 1950s with their colonnades in front had some column and facade cladding made of Meissen porcelain in the shops set up there. In the “Delikata” butcher's shop, there were various wall cladding and a column cladding, which Eduard Gerhard Clauß created in 1957. Clauss also made the shop table design tiled with porcelain plates and all the ceramic cladding on the walls and five pillars in the former flower shop. A total of thirty square meters of interior design made of Meissen porcelain in differentiated blue and green tones determined the picture. In 1958 the artist Rudolf Sitte designed a matt glazed column cladding made of Meissen porcelain plates for the former hosiery shop. After the German reunification , there was intensive renovation work in the shops. Of the ceramic cladding, only four column designs remained.
  • In 1970 , in the Pullman Dresden Newa Hotel , the then Interhotel Newa, a wall design consisting of twenty-one coordinated wall designs with the representation of buildings from St. Petersburg by Helmut Symmangk, Ludwig Zepner, Heinz Werner, and Rudi Stolle was installed. They showed architectural monuments of the “Venice of the North” such as the Summer and Winter Palais , the Hermitage , the Peter and Paul Fortress , the Resurrection Church with its onion domes and St. Isaac's Cathedral . The wall design was lost after 1990 due to several interior changes.
  • In the former coffee house in the Altmarkt building , there were two fully plastic wall designs that were divided into four groups of motifs. The artist group Peter Strang, Heinz Werner and Rudi Stolle created these porcelain pictures in 1976. These works were lost in the course of a change of ownership and renovation.
  • At the Hotel Bellevue there was a second porcelain mural in the foyer. On 55 porcelain plates with a bar relief surface there were engraved waves that were supposed to symbolize a water surface. The mural was created by Ludwig Zepner in 1985. This mural was lost due to renovation work after 1990.

Leipzig

  • For the former Hotel Stadt Leipzig, the artist Eduard Gerhard Clauß created a 6.80 meter long porcelain picture in 1964. It showed historical and then newly constructed buildings and landmarks of the city of Leipzig. The building was demolished in the 1990s. The mural was not preserved.
  • For a casino in the VVB Chemieanlagenbau Leipzig, in Goethestrasse, Eduard Gerhard Clauß created a wall cladding made of porcelain plates with a line relief in 1966. The building was demolished in 2008 and the porcelain picture was not preserved.

Meissen

  • A porcelain group created by Emil Paul Börner around 1930, which was on a wall in the room for survivors of the Meißen crematorium , is now considered lost. The group of figures represented the separation of the immortal soul from the mortal body and was originally attached to a simple wooden frame with a fabric covering. It was a smaller copy of the sculpture that is still attached today above the entrance to the Parentation Hall and was also created by Börner. The porcelain group was approx. 100 cm tall, approx. 50 cm wide and consisted of glazed white bisque porcelain from the Meissen porcelain factory.

Murals in currently unknown locations

  • Frankfurt am Main : In 1988 twelve porcelain murals over one meter in size were created for a Meissen porcelain shop in the city of Frankfurt am Main. The designs for this were provided by the artists Heinz Werner and Ludwig Zepner. The location of the murals is unknown today.
  • Hanover : For the “Bau 90” trade fair in Hanover, the artist Sabine Wachs created a large wall design made of Meissen porcelain with the title “Arctic Reflection”.
    • Another work for the fair was created by the artist Andreas Kutsche. The location of both screens has remained unknown today.
  • Hamburg : For an exhibition in Hamburg in 1978, the artist Peter Strang created a three-dimensional picture wall entitled “Hunt” with three horn-blowing hunters, a deer, hunting dogs and wild boar. Where the picture went after the exhibition remained unknown.
    • In 1989, the artist Silvia Klöde created a porcelain screen with a rotating cube for a commercial building in the city of Hamburg. Distinctive buildings of the Hanseatic city are shown in many shades of blue, which should also be reminiscent of the waters of the Elbe. The current location is unknown.
  • Ilmenau : In 1988 the artist Silvia Klöde created a ten-meter-long and three-meter-high screen with the title “Glass River” made of Meissen porcelain for the company restaurant of the VEB Werk für Technisches Glas Ilmenau . Whether this screen is still there has not been known.
  • Karlsruhe : In 1989 Jörg Danielczyk created a picture wall made of Meissen porcelain for a department store in Karlsruhe, showing the inventor Karl von Drais on his invented walking machine. The exact location of the screen is currently unknown.
  • Constance : Around 1984 the artist Heinz Werner created a mural consisting of over four hundred and eighty porcelain plates with motifs from Meissen, Leipzig and other motifs for a commercial building in Constance. It is said to have been installed in the stairwell of a commercial building in the city. The place is so far unknown.
  • Munich : In 1987 the artist Heinz Werner created scenic representations of Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt for a department store in the city, which were intended for pillar cladding. the exact location is unknown.
  • Riesa : In a former secondary school in Riesa, there have been two porcelain murals by Gerhard Schiffner since 1963, depicting children playing sports and games. More is not known so far.
  • Warnemünde : For ships that were built in the Warnow shipyard in Warnemünde , for example the motor cargo ship Leipzig , there were several orders for picture walls made of Meissen porcelain with a wide variety of motifs. These images became part of ship restaurants, swimming pools and other on-board facilities. The motifs were often bathing scenes, depictions of animals, landscapes, cities and sailing ships. The artists were among others Eduard Gerhard Clauss and Fritz Quiel. It is not known whether these screens have survived.
  • Probably for a trade fair or exhibition in 1986, the artists Jörg Danielczyk and Horst Bretschneider created a screen with naturalistic effects. The viewer's gaze was directed through an imaginary Gothic window onto the Elbe valley, Albrechtsburg castle and cathedral. It is not known where the mural is today.

Designing artist

literature

  • Theodor Meinhold: The frieze of the sgraffito pictures of the Saxon Princely House at the Royal Palace in Dresden (Augustusstrasse) executed by W. Walther. Dresden 1880.
  • Gerhard Strauss: From commission to mural. Berlin 1953.
  • Max Lingner: My life and my work. Dresden 1955.
  • Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. EA Seemann book and art publisher, Leipzig 1981.
  • Peter Guth: Walls of Promise - On the history of architecture-related art in the GDR. Thom Verlag, Leipzig 1995.
  • City administration Eisenhüttenstadt: Eisenhüttenstadt architecture - sculpture - cityscapes. Fürstenberger Druck & Verlag, Eisenhüttenstadt 1998.
  • Peter Reichler: Dresden Hauptbahnhof - 150 years of the train station in the old town. Egglham 1998.
  • Uwe Bayer: Peter Strang - a porcelain sculptor with a passion. (= Meissen manuscripts. XV). Meissen 2001.
  • Uwe Bayer: Murals - picture walls. Artistic wall design in Meissen porcelain. (= Meissen manuscripts. XVII). Meissen 2003.
  • Gymnasium Franziskaneum and Förderverein Franziskaneum Meißen e. V .: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary in 2007. Satztechnik Meißen GmbH and Meißner Tageblatt Verlag, Meißen 2007.
  • Günter Naumann: City Lexicon Meißen. Sachs-Verlag, Beucha 2009.
  • Documentation Center Everyday Culture of the GDR Eisenhüttenstadt: Everyday Life: GDR. Christoph Links Verlag, 2014.
  • Antje Kirsch: Dresden art in urban space. Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Bayer: Wall pictures - picture walls. Meissen Manuscripts XVII, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Postcards No. 14745, 18054 and 19053 by Brück & Sohn from 1912, 1914 and 1915.
  3. ^ Theodor Meinhold: The frieze of the sgraffito pictures of the Saxon ducal house at the royal palace in Dresden (Augustusstraße) executed by W. Walther. 1880, p. 4 ff.
  4. ↑ Uwe Bayer: Wall pictures - picture walls. Meissen Manuscripts XVII, pp. 102-113.
  5. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung, How Meissen's Birds Learn to Fly , November 19, 2019
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Joliet: The history of the tile , on the website: http://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/ , in the article: Murals on porcelain tiles at the gym of the Franziskaneum in Meißen , from November 12, 2018.