Augusta Kaiser

Augusta Kaiser
Born (1895-01-16)January 16, 1895
Niederbrechen, Germany
Died September 27, 1932(1932-09-27) (aged 37)
Wiesbaden, Germany
Nationality German
Known for Sculpture, Ceramic art

Augusta Kaiser (16 January 1895 – 27 September 1932) was a modern German sculptor and ceramic artist who called herself Gust Kaiser from 1922 on. She is also known as Gustl Kaiser in connection to her ceramics work for the Kieler Kunst-Keramik pottery works.

Life

Augusta Theodora Priscilla Kaiser was the daughter of teacher Peter Josef Kaiser and Augusta Schneider. From 1906 her father worked in Wiesbaden, where Augusta graduated school. She graduated with top honors from the Kunstgewerbeschule Mainz and continued her education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.[1]

In 1922 she met the painter Hedwig Marquardt[2] who was working at the time as ceramics painter at the Großherzoglichen Majolika-Manufaktur Karlsruhe. As her partner she followed her in April 1924 to Kiel, where they both worked as artists for the Kieler Kunst-Keramik (KKK) until 31 March 1925.[3]

They worked as freelance artists in Biere near Magdeburg in their own "Workshop for Applied Art", which they had to close in 1927 due to financial reasons. Afterwards the couple lived in Hanover, where Marquardt was an art teacher. After a long disease she returned to her parents' house in Wiesbaden, where she died in 1932.

Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG

Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG, Elefantenreiter, 1924, height 27,3 cm, Design: Augusta Kaiser
Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG, Meerreiter, 1924, Height 42 cm. Design: Augusta Kaiser

Kaiser was, like Marquardt, one of the first artists of the KKK.[4] She designed the majority of the fine ceramics, small figurines and vessels in the short time where she was associated with KKK, in addition to works for the construction department. All her designs are styled in the expressionist form language of the Art Deco. KKK participated in the Grassi fair in Leipzig in 1924 with art mostly by Kaiser and Marquardt.

Kaisers design for the facade of the Städtische Milchhalle Hirte in Altona, Hamburg[5] is remarkable,[6] but the building was destroyed during the Second World War. Her designs for KKK were highly appreciated already in the contemporary literature, which lauded her as a talented artist.

Selected literature

Museum collections

References

  1. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Akte Abt. 650/B Nr. 2525 und Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll: Neues schleswig-holsteinisches Kunstgewerbe, in: Die Buchgemeinde, Vol. 8, 1926, p. 340.
  2. ↑ Biographische Daten in: Christel Marsh: Hedwig Marquardt (1884 Biere – 1969 Hannover), Einführung zum Ausstellungs-Katalog 1989. John Denham Gallery, London 1989, pp. 1 and 8
  3. ↑ Letters of Hedwig Marquardt and Augusta Kaiser from 1922 to 1933, in the March family archives, London, cited in: Joachim and Angelika Konietzny: Augusta Kaiser - die Gustl Kaiser der Kieler Kunst-Keramik – und ihr Leben mit Hedwig Marquardt.
  4. ↑ Dieter Zühlsdorff: Keramik-Marken Lexikon, Porzellan und Keramik Report 1885–1935. Stuttgart 1994, p. 533.
  5. ↑ Milchhalle Hirte Hamburg - Altona-Altstadt (online on: bildindex.de)
  6. ↑ E. Rich. Schubert: Warum Ziegelbau? Eine Antwort aus Geschichte und Leistung der Ziegelindustrie. Werbebuch für die Ziegelindustrie, vol. I, Berlin 1926, illustration p. 50.

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