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Product description
Art Nouveau antique rare slip painting sheet decor
Majolica art large clay vase from the 1900s
by Professor MAX LAEUGER - KTK
Kunsttöperei Tonwerke Kandern Germany
Finest handmade and hand painted design
Art pottery Tonwerke Kandern (KTK)
Workshop of the important ceramist Prof. Max Laeuger.
One of the first art potteries in Germany. Director from 1897 to 1913
by Max Lauger. From 1920 under the direction of Herman. Hakenjos.
Max Laeuger (* September 30, 1864 in Lörrach; † December 12, 1952 ibid; full name: Josef Maximilian Laeuger)
was a German ceramist, artist and architect.
Laeuger was born the son of the gunsmith Tobias Laeuger and the daughter of the architect Sophie Adler. From 1880 to 1883 he studied with Franz Sales Meyer at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts, among others. There he became assistant teacher in 1884 and later assistant for two years. In 1898 he received an extraordinary professorship for figure drawing at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, and in 1904 a full professorship. His teaching activities expanded to interior design and garden art.
Regular retirement took place in 1933, the actual farewell followed two years later.
After working with ceramics in Kandern and Karlsruhe from 1892, he founded the company Prof. Laeuger'sche Kunsttöpfereien, which belonged to the Tonwerke Kandern. In 1914, 738 ship designs and 320 architectural ceramic designs were created here. In 1916 he founded his own ceramics workshop in Hoffstrasse in Karlsruhe. Here he created about 5000 unique ceramics until 1944. From 1921 to 1929 he provided designs for the majolica factory in Karlsruhe, which were to be produced in series. From 1920 to 1922 he taught ceramics at the Badische Landeskunstschule Karlsruhe.
Max Laeuger was one of the founders of the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907. He was artistically active in many fields, worked as a graphic artist, painter and glass painter, ceramist and architect, interior designer and landscape gardener and designed handicraft objects. He also writes a number of art didactic works.
Max Laeuger is considered one of the pioneers of German art ceramics of the 20th century. Prof. Laeuger's art pottery, executed at the Tonwerke Kandern between 1897 and 1914, made an important contribution to German Art Nouveau. These ornamental vessels and architectural ceramics showed colorful decorations painted with slip, mostly vegetal, naturalistic to abstract, on colored backgrounds. The mark for the Kanderner products consists of the press mark MLK in a square, plus GESETZL.: SCHZT., often in connection with SAMPLE GESETZL. PROTECTED. The signature KTK in the square, which is often confused with this mark, has nothing to do with Max Laeuger. With his unique pieces, Laeuger later took an artistic quantum leap. Between 1916 and 1944, he consistently abolished the boundaries between the individual art genres with the tile pictures, reliefs and sculptures he creates in his own studio in Karlsruhe, thus paving the way for modern artist's ceramics.
Material: Clay - majolica shards glazed with slip painting.
Model numbers: 770, KTK signed.
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsGrey, Blue, Creme, BlackMaterialCeramicNumber of items1StyleArt DecoHeight33 cmWidth17 cmDepth17 cm