A unique faience tea service by Theodor Bogler
Comprising teapot with lid, eight tea bowls, eleven saucers, four plates of 16.5 cm diameter and four plates of 18 cm diameter. With willow-wrapped handles. Painted artist's mark TB. Rim chips, craquelure. H of teapot without handle 20 cm.
Steingutfabrik Velten Vordamm, 1925/26, modelled and produced by Theodor Bogler.
Before beginning his life as a Benedictine monk in the Abbey of Maria Laach, Theodor Bogler (Hofgeismar 1897 - 1968 Maria Laach) took a preliminary course at the State Bauhaus in Weimar under Johannes Itten as well as additional seminars with Lyonel Feininger. In the mid-1920s, he was employed by Dr. Hermann Harkort at the Velten-Vordamm stoneware manufactory. A large fire in the factory caused significant damage and led to a restructuring process when production was resumed in 1923. The talented Bauhaus pupil Theodor Bogler was placed in charge of the production of ambitious, one-off works. However, following the death of his wife in 1925, Bogler decided to dedicate himself entirely to a spiritual life. He enterered the monastery in 1927, where he continued to run a ceramics studio.
Literature
An identical plate in the Bröhan collection (cat.: Kunst der 20er und 30er Jahre, vol. III, Berlin 1985, no. 550).