WE CELEBRATE: 80 YEARS OF FELDBLUME
Our FELDBLUME collection is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. Reason enough to dedicate ourselves once again to its beginnings...
The origin
Gerhard Gollwitzer worked as an artistic assistant to the director of the manufactory from 1937, and from 1941 to 1946 he was artistic director and also head of training at KPM Berlin. Gollwitzer's originality lies above all in the relief decoration. It was predominantly delicate natural forms such as grasses or meadow flowers that occupied him time and again and led to a revival of the relief. In 1940, Gollwitzer designed a delicate relief decoration with naturalistic depictions of grasses, meadow flowers and insects for the smooth ARKADIA dinner service by Trude Petri. The result was the FELDBLUME dinner service.
From 1928, Petri initially worked as a freelancer at the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM Berlin) under the direction of Nicola Moufang. When Günther von Pechmann took over the management of the manufactory in 1929, Petri was employed permanently as a designer. Two years later, the sculptor, painter and designer created the URBINO dinner service. Consistently based on the basic shape of the spherical section, URBINO impresses with its clarity and elegance and is a perfectly shaped classic made of "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.
