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Two Vases from the Bürgeler Kunstkeramische Werkstätten (Germany), ca. 1920

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    Posted 10 years ago

    jensen
    (100 items)

    There seems to have been a number of interesting potteries operating in pre-WWII Germany, and these vases come from one of them! They were made in Bürgel (known as a pottery centre from early times), a town near Jena in Germany, at the Bürgeler Kunstkeramische Werkstätten (BKW).

    The Pottery was founded in 1919 by Carl Fischer who was trained as a potter at the pottery school (Fachschule) in Bunzlau, another well-known pottery centre (now Boleslawiec in Poland) - I have previously posted a vase from one of these potteries (Reinhold & Co.) - and it seems to have closed in 1959. The early works produced at the pottery are clearly inspired by art nouveau / Jugendstil. These two vases are presumably from the early 1920's.

    The mark is 'BKW' for 'Bürgeler Kunstkeramische Werkstätten' in a triangular shield-like shape and the location 'Bürgel' below. Moreover, a shape number (here 539 and 636, respectively). The height of the green vase is 13.5 cm and the blue one is 9.5 cm tall. The cream and green vase is a little unusual with its two-tone drip glaze - the blue one, however is a very typical example with its monochrome blue glaze and a drip glaze in another blue colour. I have two other (rather large) vases which are brown with a lighter brown drip glaze - I will post them some time when I have a photo!

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    Comments

    1. cogito cogito, 10 years ago
      Wonderful! German ceramics from this period are so under-appreciated…and undeservedly so!
    2. getthatmonkeyoutofme getthatmonkeyoutofme, 10 years ago
      otto lindig, as far as i have heard so far, has been a friend of the family fischer.
      and it is possible he did some designs for cf...
      ...at least Marieluise Fischers has been the last apprentice at lindigs workshop in 1944
    3. jensen jensen, 10 years ago
      Interesting info on Otto Lindig; thanks for that, and I agree, cogito, there seems to be a lot of interesting early 20th-century ceramics from Germany, but at times it's really hard to find any useful information on it... And thanks for the loves.

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