Our FELDBLUME collection is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. Reason enough to dedicate ourselves once again to its beginnings...
We celebrate: 80 years of the field flower
WE CELEBRATE: 80 YEARS OF FELDBLUME
The origin
Gerhard Gollwitzer served as artistic assistant to the factory director beginning in 1937; from 1941 to 1946, he was artistic director and, at the same time, head of training at the “ KPM Berlin.” Gollwitzer’s originality lies primarily in his relief decoration. It was predominantly delicate natural forms, such as grasses and meadow flowers, that repeatedly captured his interest and led to a revival of the relief technique. In 1940, Gollwitzer designed a delicate relief decoration featuring naturalistic depictions of grasses, meadow flowers, and insects for Trude Petri’s smooth ARKADIA tableware line. The result was the FELDBLUME dinner service.
Starting in 1928, Petri initially worked as a freelancer at the Berlin State Porcelain Manufactory (KPM Berlin) under the direction of Nicola Moufang. When Günther von Pechmann took over as director of the manufactory in 1929, Petri was hired as a full-time designer. Two years later, the sculptor, painter, and designer created the URBINO dinner service. Consistently built upon the basic form of a truncated sphere, URBINO captivates with its clarity and elegance and is a perfectly shaped classic crafted from “white gold.”
What passes and returns in nature is preserved forever with the FELDBLUME collection. On a walk through meadows and fields, you sometimes remember a particularly beautiful detail: a flower by the wayside, the shadow cast by an ear of corn, the buzzing of a beetle. The FELDBLUME collection turns to the good life, affirmative, light and stylish. Like a warm breeze, the service carries with it all the memories of a convivial early summer's day.
As bas-reliefs, they create a charming interplay of light and shadow on the walls of vessels and plate flags. If the delicate relief decoration is painted by hand, each piece is truly unique.
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