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Item Number: 134538
Title: The Golden Age of the KPM : Weichmalerei (Soft-Paste-Paint) on Berlin Porcelain
Author: Dietz, Franca
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783731901921
Description: Petersberg: Imhof, 2015. 31cm., hardcover, 509pp., 523 color, 51 b&w illus. English text. Summary: The Hassan Sabet Collection mainly focuses on the type of decoration known as Weichmalerei. The porcelain pieces in the collection provide a broad overview of both the excellence of the painting and sculpture as well as the characteristics of the Berlin factory's products during the last third of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The Hassan Sabet Collection provides the basis for this unique, fundamental guide to Weichmalerei, which presents the current state of research on the production of these fascinating highlights from the KPM Berlin. This special collection was assembled during a span of more than thirty years, and exclusively comprises high-quality decorative porcelain pieces from the KPM Berlin. An extremely homogeneous collection of historicist porcelain unlike any found in museums worldwide. The neo-rococo-inspired forms of the porcelain, previously unknown for the most part, were, like the painting, thoroughly examined in order to demonstrate the specific peculiarities of the objects of the KPM. The KPM artists such as Paul Miethe or Franz Aulich, some of whom were given their due for the first time in this book, virtuosically mastered Weichmalerei in the KPM, and will be presented by means of numerous examples of porcelain work. The painter Alexander Kips was also significant for the KPM, since he helped the factory gain the utmost recognition through his artistic influence. The impressively wide variety of designs attests to the KPM's enthusiasm for experime tation during the second half of the 19th century - in the use of novel decorative techniques, the Berlin factory was the world leader at that time.
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