Sword stamps, year mark 1963 and 2004, 1st choice. Model no.: 86177 and 78716 (old A 1244). Design: 1938. MÜNCH-KHE, Willi (1885 Karlsruhe - 1960 ibid.)

1x white, 1x Böttger stoneware. H 17 cm.

 

"Willi Eduard Heinrich Münch-Khe (1885 - 1961) attended the Karlsruhe Academy after an apprenticeship as a glass painter from 1904 to 1907 at the Karlsruhe Academy. From 1908 to 1910, he was a drawing teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts in Karlsruhe. He received his first commissions as a painter and designer from the Karlsruhe Majolica Manufactory. In 1912/1913, he worked in the painting workshop of the Meissen porcelain manufactory. From 1925 to 1932, he also supplied models to the Meissen manufactory. As early as 1924, Otto Pelka counted him among a number of artists who already enjoyed a "sonorous name". Many of his mostly small sculptural works were executed not only in porcelain, but preferably in Böttger stoneware." (Petra Werner, in: Catalog: Auf der Pirsch - Jagdbare Tiere in Porzellan, Porzellanikon (vol. 117), Hohenberg a.d. Eger 2015, p. 44/cat. no. 37).

Provenance : German private collection.