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Audioguide: 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

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