The Bunzlau pottery of Germany and Silesia

Magazine Antiques, July, 1997 by Charles R. Mack, Ilona S. Mack

7 Some of the principal potters of Silesia are Robert Burdack, Julius Paul, August Hude, Hugo Reinhold and Company, Alfred Seiffert, Kurt Hoffmann, Gerhard Seiler, and Paul Vogt of Bunzlau; and Karl Werner and Company of Tillendorf. In the eastern section of Germany they are Fritz Frommhold and Company of Konigsbruck, Paul Schreier of Bischofswerda, Paul Jurgel of Niederbielau; Karl Louis Lehmann, K. A. Heinke, and Gerhard Kannegiesser of Neukirch; Pieter Ludwig, Karl Seiler, and the Wagner firm of Gorzke; and Johannes Reh of Kamenz.

8 Despite his importance in the history of arts and crafts ceramics, Festersen remains an enigma. For what little is known about him see Gisela Reineking von Bock, Meister der Deutschen Keramik, 1900 bis 1950 (Kunstgewerbemuseum Koln, Cologne, Germany, 1978), pp. 115-116; and Wolfgang Scheffler, Werke um 1900 (Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Berlin, 1966), pp. 116 - 117.

CHARLES R. MACK is the Scudder Professor of Art History and the William J. Todd Professor of the Italian Renaissance at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

ILONA S. MACK has a long-standing interest in the traditional pottery of both the United States and Germany.