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Siegfried Möller (*1896 Hamburg/Altona; † 1970 in Kiel)
Möller has been Professor at the Academy of Arts in Bremen from 1936 onwards.... Some of his pupils are Liebfriede Bernstiel, Walburga Külz, Elisabeth Pluquet-Ulrich and Siegfried Schneider-Döring.
From 1926 Möller has been artistic leader at ther Hirschauer Steingutfabriken C. & E. Carstens and from 1926 to 1927 at the Rheinsberger Keramik factory. In 1930 he moved to Elsterwerda and opened an artistic workshop for them. The best Designs for Elsterwerda are from that time.
After a short time there he left in 1931 to opened an artistic workshop for the Elmshorner Steingutfabrik C. & E. Carstens.
Alltogether Siegfried Möller opened art workshops for five different companies from 1923 to 1935.
beside this he designed for the Hamelner Töpferei in the 1920s, in the 1950s for Fürstenberg and from 1955 onwards for KMK Kupfermühle.
both vases made at the same day on october the 22nd of 1944...
both are with this wonderful contrasting well elaborated handpainted decoration of animals and flowers on quite rudimentary thrown vessels
Love these beautifully painted lustre pieces by Möller! Unicas! Outstanding!
Amazing that they survived during that time in Hamburg.
well might be because they've been made in bremen :-)
i wonder which technique he used to reach such a richness of details in the gilded motivs. did he just polished parts of the gold before burning?
thanks for all the loves...
I think they call it 'burnishing'.
Just an aside note that Bremen was bombed continuously until 1945:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bremen_in_World_War_II
Was he working further north on the Danish border in Kupfermühle?
no it's another place he worked...
sattenfelde/kupfermühle is located between hamburg and lübeck
he worked there when he was a professor in kiel...
as far as i know mainly the port of bremen has been bombed
but there hasn't been such a terrible bomb carpet like in hamburg
I saw another one on ebay dated some six months later last night. The images show an optimism quite extraordinary given the times!
He seemed to be a positiv thinking guy I guess...
so beautiful!