Artists/Makers/Factories
FRIEDRICH GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897)
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
38.00cm wide
125.00cm high
50.00cm deep
(14.96 inches wide 49.21 inches high 19.69 inches deep)
Condition
Very good condition, some restauration on one foot.
Description / Expertise
A Goldscheider polychrome painted terracotta figure of a young fisher boy seated on an associated american chair, Austria ca.1890.
In 1885, Friedrich Goldscheider came from the small Bohemian city of Pilsen to Vienna and founded the Goldscheider Manufactory and Majolica Factory. It became one of the most influential ceramic manufactories of terracotta, faience and bronze objects in Austria with subsidiaries in Paris, Leipzig and Florence. For over half a century Goldscheider created masterpieces of historical revivalism, Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) and Art Deco. Famous artists such as Josef Lorenzl, Stefan Dakon, Ida Meisinger and the two perhaps best known Austrian ceramic artists Michael Powolny and Vally Wieselthier worked for Goldscheider. Several of the artists who worked for Goldscheider also worked for other Viennese studios, such as Augarten, Keramos or for the German brands Rosenthal and Meissen.
The Goldscheider family emigrated in 1938 to United Kingdom and USA. Walter Goldscheider startet a new factory in Trenton, New Jersey and returned to Vienna in 1950. Marcel Goldscheider went to Stoke-on-Trent and produced figurative ceramics for Myott and opened his own studion in the 1950s in Hanley. Both brothers died in the early 1960s.
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