Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH Goldscheider: History of the Company and Catalogue of Works

This catalogue of works covers more than 4,000 models (including over 1600 reproductions of models) Provides an extensive history of the firm (with over 400 colour illustrations) Encompasses an exhaustive index of artists as well as a complete overview of marks 1,600 models and 50 signatures reproduced Text in English and German A huge clientele of Goldscheider ceramics collectors exists worldwide, however there have been virtually no publications dealing with this important field for collectors. Goldscheider, a Viennese factory (est. 1885), soon sped to the top of European ceramics makers. Figures and vessels of faience and terracotta as well as bronze and alabaster, all of top quality in respect of form and workmanship, were created in the Historicist, Jugendstil and Art Deco period styles. A crucial factor was collaboration with distinguished sculptors and ceramicists of the day - including Demetre Chiparus, Walter Bosse and Josef Lorenzl - who were responsible for a great many of the Goldscheider designs. This success story was quashed by National Socialist aryanisation in 1938: the Goldscheider family was forced to emigrate, the firm was sold and the new proprietor was unable to sustain the high aesthetic quality standard. The Goldscheider brothers did manage to open new ceramics businesses while in exile in the US and England and Walter Goldscheider even returned to Vienna after the Second World War to resume his post as managing director of his old firm; however, in the 1950s the great ceramics tradition of this venerable Viennese business ended when it was sold to the German Carstens company. Text in English and German.