Audioguide: Audioguide Keramikmuseum Bürgel [EN] @museum.de

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

0: 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
99: BONUS: A Ceramicist Talks about her Work