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Ceramic Art Nouveau Vase by Max Laeuger for Tonwerke Kandern, Germany, 1910s.
$2,495
£1,898.33
€2,187.26
CA$3,542.12
A$3,800.06
CHF 2,038.27
MX$45,752.21
NOK 25,694.84
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DKK 16,341.77
About the Item
A beautiful Art Nouveau / Art Deco earthenware vase with amazing leaf decor.
Made by Professor Max Läuger for Tonwerke in Kandern, Germany, 1897-1914.
Great condition, only a couple of tiny chips to the decor (pictured).
Incised with makers mark and model number 841.
Maximilian Josef Max Laeuger (1864–1952) was a German architect, artist, designer, and one of the most important figures in early 20th-century European ceramics and applied arts. Born on 30 September 1864 in Lörrach, a town in Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, he grew up at a time when the arts and crafts movement was gaining momentum across Europe, promoting the unity of art, design, and everyday life. Laeuger’s wide-ranging talents led him to become not just a ceramist, but a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, interior and garden architect, teacher, and theorist of art and design.
His formal artistic training began at the School of Decorative Arts in Karlsruhe, where he studied painting and interior design in the early 1880s. He later expanded his education with studies in Paris at the Académie Julian, and through extensive travels in Italy, North Africa, and Spain, where he studied Islamic ceramics and absorbed diverse influences that would inform his own work.
Although trained in traditional arts, Laeuger’s deepest passion quickly became ceramics, a medium through which he could merge colour, form, and decoration. In 1897 he founded the Prof. Laeuger'sche Kunst-Töpfereien at the Tonwerke Kandern pottery in the Black Forest, where he created hundreds of designs for vases, tiles, and architectural ceramics that were produced and distributed widely during the height of the Art Nouveau movement. His ceramic works were characterised by their relief decoration, stylised plant motifs, vibrant glazes, and organic forms, and they were exhibited internationally - including at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where he won gold medals for his designs.
Laeuger’s creative interests, however, went far beyond pottery. In 1907 he became one of the founding members of the Deutscher Werkbund, an influential organisation that sought to integrate traditional craftsmanship with modern industrial production and would help shape modern design in Germany. As an architect and landscape designer he developed plans for private villas, parks, and public gardens, bringing the same artistic sensibility to built environments that he applied to ceramics. Among his notable projects were extensive garden designs in Baden-Baden and large estates in Germany and the Netherlands, where he conceived not only the layout of gardens but also decorative elements such as tiles and lighting.
Laeuger maintained a long academic career as well, serving as a professor of interior, garden, and later figure drawing and decoration at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from the 1890s into the 1930s. His teaching emphasised the integration of colour, form, and space, reflecting his belief in the Gesamtkunstwerk - the total work of art - in which multiple disciplines come together harmoniously.
In 1916 Laeuger established his own ceramics workshop in Karlsruhe, where he continued to produce innovative pieces through the 1940s. Between 1921 and 1929 he also supplied designs to the Staatliche Majolika-Manufaktur Karlsruhe, further cementing his influence on German ceramic art. His work from this period demonstrates a maturation of style, blending Art Nouveau’s expressive ornamentation with a more refined and personal aesthetic.
Throughout his life Laeuger remained internationally recognised for his contributions to both decorative and applied arts. Honors came his way, including honorary citizenship of his hometown of Lörrach and prestigious awards such as the Goethe Medal for Art and Science. Even late in life his work continued to be celebrated, and in 1951 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Triennial of Milan, underscoring his lasting impact on design.
Max Laeuger died on 12 December 1952 in his native Lörrach. Today he is remembered as a multidisciplinary pioneer who brought ceramics into the realm of fine art, blurred the boundaries between decoration and structure, and helped bridge traditional craft and modern design in Germany and beyond. His legacy lives on in museums, public spaces, and the many ceramic works that remain treasured by collectors and institutions around the world.
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- Similar to:Majolica Manufactory of Karlsruhe (Manufacturer)Edmund de Waal (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 9.45 in (24 cm)Diameter: 7.09 in (18 cm)
- Style:Art Nouveau (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1897-1914
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Malmö, SE
- Reference Number:Seller: 9901stDibs: LU8317248175862
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