Stamped scepter mark KPM and red stamp mark of the porcelain factory Fraureuth with the addition "Fraureuth art department hand painted", 1917 - ca. 1922. signed "O. Dietrich". DIETRICH, Oskar (1877 - 1948)

Polychrome painting. 34 x 28.5 cm, in gold stucco frame (49 x 43.5 cm).

The porcelain factory Fraureuth AG in Saxony was founded in 1865 and maintained art departments at various locations. The painting department in Lichte specialized in so-called "gallery copies", i.e. copies of famous old master paintings on porcelain plates, vases, plates and boxes, which were decorated from 1917 for the Fraureuth manufactory by local painters. In addition to Alfred Brödel and Karl Büttner, the painter Oskar Dietrich, who came from Lichte, made the majority of the gallery copies on porcelain plates. The plates themselves came in part from KPM Berlin.

Literature : Catalog of the porcelain factory Fraureuth A.-G., catalog of the art department Wallendorf S.-M. 1920, p. 1. Alamy, Sandy: "Von wahrhaft künstlerischer Ausführung", porcelain plate painting from Thuringia since the 19th century, 2014, p. 93 ff. Fraas, Susanne: Wachgeküsst, Verborgene Schätze der Fraureuther Porzellanfabrik, 2003.