Art Nouveau vase. Art pottery Tonwerke Kandern.

Model no. 813. model by. LAEUGER, Max(1864 Lörrach - 1952 Lörrach)

Height: 25.5 cm.

Light brown body, glazed red-brown inside, black outside, painted in green, yellow and black. Surrounded by flowers and tendrils in a triple repeat. Bottom mark KTK, incised mark. Mouth rim slightly chipped.

* Laeuger, architect, designer, sculptor, painter, studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe, taught there from 1884, professor from 1894, head of the artistic ceramics department of the Tonwerke Kandern from 1897-1914, founding member of the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907, own ceramic studio in Karlsruhe from 1916-1944, employee of the Majolika-Manufaktur in Karlsruhe from 1921-1929.

Literature : De Gruyter (2014), Zühlsdorff (994) no. 1.1655.

Provenance : * Partner auction Bergmann (responsibility for legally compliant consignment and description lies with Auktionshaus Bergmann, Erlangen), Kurt Adelsberger Collection, part 4.