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Audioguide: Audioguide Keramikmuseum Bürgel [E]

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

00
Welcome
01
Pottery Town
02
Making Pottery
03
Stoneware, Earthenware, Engobe-decorated Pottery
04
Firing
05
The Potters’ Guild
06
Changing Times
07
The Route to Art Nouveau
08
Henry van de Velde and Bürgel Art Nouveau
09
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