A Pair of Large Centrepieces "Horse Tamer"
Joseph Wackerle (Partenkirchen 1880 - Partenkirchen 1959)
Lot-No. 533
Nymphenburg. Designed around 1921/41. Porcelain, polychrome painted. H. 62 cm. Shield mark, model no. 568 and 891. Prof. rest. Wackerle first designed the motif of the rising steed in 1913-15 as a centrepiece and centre of an extensive service on the occasion of the marriage of Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig and Lüneburg and his wife, Victoria Luise of Prussia. In 1921, he altered the ‘aristocratic’ model of the Guelph horse and added a Moorish boy holding the horse by the reins. It was not until April 1941 that the figure was given a counterpart with the horse tamer, who now wore an 18th-century-style Bavarian uniform - Literature: Fig. in: Alfred Ziffer. Nymphenburger Moderne. München, 1997, p. 250/251 and 257 - German sculptor and medal maker, educated at the School of Arts and Crafts and Academy in Munich, since 1906 Artistic Director at the Nymphenburg porcelain manufactory, professor at the arts and crafts museum Berlin, between 1924-50 teaching assignment at the Munich Art Academy.
Joseph Wackerle: A Pair of Large Centrepieces "Horse Tamer"
Joseph Wackerle (Partenkirchen 1880 - Partenkirchen 1959)
A Pair of Large Centrepieces "Horse Tamer"
Lot-No. 533
Nymphenburg. Designed around 1921/41. Porcelain, polychrome painted. H. 62 cm. Shield mark, model no. 568 and 891. Prof. rest. Wackerle first designed the motif of the rising steed in 1913-15 as a centrepiece and centre of an extensive service on the occasion of the marriage of Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig and Lüneburg and his wife, Victoria Luise of Prussia. In 1921, he altered the ‘aristocratic’ model of the Guelph horse and added a Moorish boy holding the horse by the reins. It was not until April 1941 that the figure was given a counterpart with the horse tamer, who now wore an 18th-century-style Bavarian uniform - Literature: Fig. in: Alfred Ziffer. Nymphenburger Moderne. München, 1997, p. 250/251 and 257 - German sculptor and medal maker, educated at the School of Arts and Crafts and Academy in Munich, since 1906 Artistic Director at the Nymphenburg porcelain manufactory, professor at the arts and crafts museum Berlin, between 1924-50 teaching assignment at the Munich Art Academy.
