FRIEDRICH GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897)

Terra cotta Blackamoore Figure by Goldscheider (c. 1890 Austria)

Terra cotta Blackamoore Figure by Goldscheider (Austria)

Item Medium Description

terra cotta

Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details

Goldscheider

European Dimensions

62.00 cm high

UK/USA Converted Dimensions

24.41 inches high

Current Item Condition

near perfect condition.

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

A polychrome painted terracotta figure of a young fisher boy, 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.

GOLDSCHEIDER

Type	Artist/Maker
Country of origin	Austria
Born	1845
Died	1897

Friedrich Goldscheider was born in Plzen, 6 Nov 1845 and died in Nice, 19 Jan 1897. Czech ceramics manufacturer. After completing his apprenticeship as a salesman at the haberdashery business of his father Moritz Goldscheider (d 1865) in Pilsen, he constructed a brickworks for the production of fireproof wares. From 1877 he became involved in the porcelain industry. After his marriage in 1873, he settled in Vienna and in 1885 established the Goldscheider'sche Porzellan-Manufaktur und Majolica-Fabrik, the success of which led to the establishment of numerous branches, including a porcelain and earthenware factory in Pilsen and a factory for painting porcelain in Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary).

In 1887 the firm exhibited at the International Exhibition in Leipzig, where they showed 'maiolica' figures with thick, lead glazes. Arthur Strasser, professor at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule, worked closely with Goldscheider and designed numerous figures for the firm primarily in the East Asian style. At the 1888 Kaiser Jubilee Exhibition in Vienna it was thought that Goldscheider's polychrome might fall out of fashion, but in the same year he won a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona.

The scale of production, however, made it necessary to divide the firm's output between the two main centres. In Vienna terracotta and maiolica figures, busts and murals were produced, while in Carlsbad porcelain dinner-services, coffee, tea and demi-tasse services were manufactured. In 1891 the firm was granted the patent for decorating wares in a bronze colour. The new wares achieved great popularity especially in Paris, and in 1892 Goldscheider opened a branch there for manufacturing 'bronzed' pieces. In 1893 these were exhibited at the International Exhibition in Leipzig and at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago.

After Goldscheider's death the firm was managed by his widow Regina Goldscheider and his brother Alois Goldscheider, and in 1953, owing to financial difficulties, it finally closed.

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