Beschreibung
The only specialist museum for ceramics in Thuringia was founded as early as 1880, originally as a collection of samples open to the public. As one of the oldest existing ceramics museums, it focuses on documenting Bürgel’s 450-year-old tradition of making pottery.
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- Welcome
- 1
- Pottery Town
- 2
- Making Pottery
- 3
- Stoneware, Earthenware, Engobe-decorated Pottery
- 4
- Firing
- 5
- The Potters’ Guild
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- Changing Times
- 7
- The Route to Art Nouveau
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- Henry van de Velde and Bürgel Art Nouveau
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- Art Déco and the New Objectivity
- 10
- State Regulation
- 11
- Bürgel Workshops in East Germany
- 12
- Carl Fischer and Walter Gebauer
- 13
- Bürgel Potteries Today
- 14
- Henry van de Velde: the Man and his Work in Bürgel
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- The Henry van de Velde Style in Bürgel
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- BONUS: A Ceramicist Talks about her Work