Audio guide: Audioguide Keramikmuseum Bürgel [EN]

Description

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.

Stations of this Audioguide

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Welcome

1

Pottery Town

2

Making Pottery

3

Stoneware, Earthenware, Engobe-decorated Pottery

4

Firing

5

The Potters’ Guild

6

Changing Times

7

The Route to Art Nouveau

8

Henry van de Velde and Bürgel Art Nouveau

9

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

15

The Henry van de Velde Style in Bürgel

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BONUS: A Ceramicist Talks about her Work