The royal porcelain Manufaktur Berlin was created by Friedrich the large one on 19 September 1763. Their actual origin it has however in three private enterprises, those under royal promotion already since the center 18. Century tried to establish the white gold (porcelain) in and/or from Berlin.

The Firmensignet is a cobalt-blue Zepter, which becomes marked on each piece (painted 1837 ago). All painted pieces of the KPM are handmarked by the painters and painters. The KPM is also today still another Manufaktur, i.e. table-ware parts manufactured of their are all Unikate.

History

At the beginning stood the citizen of Berlin buyer and Wollzeugfabrikant William Caspar Wegely, which created 1751 the first citizens of Berlin Porzellanmanufaktur and into the year 1757 operated these. The porcelain of its Manufaktur is today very rare and desired. They are characterised by very beautiful white pieces of broken glass and are marked by a under-glaze-blue W.

Further for the early period citizen of Berlin of porcelain very important Porzellanmodelleur and Arkanist Ernst Heinrich realm pool of broadcasting corporations is to be called. It was first active as a Modelleur with Wegely. It we have the Putten afflicted with so self-willed civil charm, allegorischen figures, to owe Kavaliere and galanten ladies. After the locking of the Wegely' factory it operated a workshop-similar porcelain manufacturing in Berlin, over which however so far only relatively little admits is.

When the entrepreneur intended Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky to follow the desire Friedrichs of the large one a new Porzellanmanufaktur in Berlin to establish, sold E to it. H. realm pool of broadcasting corporations on 11 January 1761 beside its small enterprise also the Arkanum, thus to a certain extent the know-how for the manufacturing of porcelain. E.H. realm pool of broadcasting corporations were taken over Arkanist of the Manufaktur and also its eight persons employed.

J.E. Gotzkowsky, by the Prussian king as entrepreneurs very estimated and promoted, used the favour of the hour and could further important artists and coworkers from the Saxonian Manufaktur in Meissen abwerben. Saxonia was occupied in the time of the seven-year-old of war (1756-1763) of Prussian troops and the Meissener porcelain Manufaktur practically in the hand Friedrichs of the large one. With these specialists then - in the Leipziger road 4 in Berlin - in only few months a quite efficient Porzellanmanufaktur developed. The porcelain is marked by a under-glaze-blue G., them is however today so well untraceable. In only few museums and public collections therefore appropriate pieces are, usually are it individual parts from coffee and Teeservicen.

As first director Johann George Grieninger was used, a very lucky choice. When J.E came. to Gotzkowsky due to its speculative cash transactions into ever more difficult financial driving water, the king acquired in the meantime the well set up enterprise in the autumn 1763 - once, in order to save the outstanding citizen of Berlin buyer from the threatening bankruptcy, above all however, in order to protect the recent enterprise, which to him so much because of the heart was, the early fall.

With the assumption of the Manufaktur by Friedrich the actual success history now of the "royal ones" porcelain Manufaktur in Berlin began the large one.

At the Leipziger road convenient production buildings 1868 to their current location at the station zoo were originally shifted.

In the Second World War - at the night of 22. to 23 November 1943 - the Porzellanmanufaktur was so heavily damaged by air raids that production had to be stopped. In December 1943 the work was again taken up in the mass mill and in January 1944 a emergency operation.

Products

The KPM manufactured a multiplicity of table-ware forms and porcelain in the course of its history. Some forms are to a large extent invariably produced for more than 200 years. Friedrich the large one, which called itself as an owner of the Manufaktur jokeful its "best customer", was arrested time of its life the taste Rococo, which was led in its locks to an artistic high point. The Geschirre for the respective locks and areas was co-ordinated with the remaining decoration and mechanism. The following Geschirre is remarkable:

For the Breslauer city lock was sketched the form Antikzierath of Chefmodelleur Friedrich Elias Meyer (today under the name Rocaille in the program). The flag is surrounded by a antikisierenden rod bundle, which inward plastic Rocaillen and four fields with flower ornamentations follow. from the four fields in each case four ribs into the mirror of the plate go. For the Breslauer city lock the fields on the flag with blue shed painting, which paints mirrors with "natural flowers", became.

For the Potsdamer city lock was ordered the same form with yellow fringing fields without patterns of scales.

The form cure country, likewise sketched by Friedrich Elias Meyer, is the first strictly klassizistische form of the KPM. The plates are to a large extent smooth and at edges the flag with egg staff, cloth pendants and bead staff verziert. The first large supply with painting in gold and lightgreen for the flag and "natural flowers" in the mirror ordered Peter von Biron, Herzog von Kurland, after whom service was designated.

Literature

• George spring: Berlin porcelain. The Manufaktur Friedrichs of the large one 1763-1786. Neudr. D. Expenditure. Hobbing publishing house, Berlin, 1913/Helmut Fischer (Hrsg.), Helmut shearing he publishing house GmbH, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-89433-018-X
• Erich Margarete Jarchow: Berlin porcelain. 2. Aufl., new expenditure. Klinghardt & Biermann, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-7814-0264-9
• Giesela Zick: Berlin porcelain of the Manufaktur of William Caspar Wegely. 1. Edition. Gebr. - man publishing house, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-7861-1134-0
• Winfried bear, Ilse bear, Suzanne Grosskopf Knaack: From Gotzkowsky to the KPM. From the early period of the friderizianischen porcelain. Publishing house Willmuth Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-922912-15-X
• harms: Berlin porcelain. To the art and culture history of the citizens of Berlin Porzellanmanufakturen in 18. and 19. Century. Keyser publishing house, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-87405-170-6
• Michaela Braesel, Katharina Johanna Lessmann: Berlin porcelain 18. Century. Museum for art and trade Hamburg, 1993, ISBN 3-923859-17
• Margarete Jarchow: Berlin porcelain in 20. Century - Berlin Porcelain into the 20th Century. (in two languages: dt. /engl.) Dietrich Reimer publishing house, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-496-01054-1
• Karl H. Porcelain art. Part 1: Berlin porcelain from the Rococo to the Empire (part of 2: China and ceramic(s) around 1900). Exhibition catalog. Collection Karl H. Berlin, 1969, ISBN missing

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• Homepage of the KPM

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