Porcelain department

Photograph of the porcelain department. In the image you can see all kinds of objects made of this material. Between 1919 and 1933, Germany was under a republican regime for the first time in its history. The world was then experiencing a period of exceptional artistic ferment, led by the avant-garde. These years coincided with the rise of modern art and abstraction, from Russian Suprematism and Constructivism to the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands or the Bauhaus school. This art school, founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius (1883-1969), acquired an international reputation, especially for advocating the synthesis of art, craft and industry. His influence on contemporary German society extended to pottery production. Across the country, manufacturers embraced a new aesthetic, catapulting industrially designed objects into the heart of more modest homes.