40 years of Porzellanikon Hohenberg a.d. Eger: Lecture series on the anniversary "550 years of porcelain culture. Fürstenberg and Nymphenburg celebrate double anniversary"
"It is not only Porzellanikon - State Museum of Porcelain, Hohenberg a.d. Eger that is celebrating an anniversary," informs museum director Anna Dziwetzki. "We have succeeded in attracting two top-class speakers for the fourth lecture in our 40th anniversary lecture series, who are also celebrating an anniversary. On Saturday 15 October 2022, we welcome Dr Katharina Hantschmann from the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and Dr Christian Lechelt from the Museum Schloss Fürstenberg in Fürstenberg/Weser. They will present their manufactories Nymphenburg and Fürstenberg, which can also look back on an anniversary this year, namely 275 years of history". Interested listeners can expect a journey through time from the years of origin to the present from 6:00 pm at Porzellanikon Selb. The evening will focus on the many similarities and differences in the long tradition of the two manufactories.
550 years of porcelain culture - in Europe this is only possible if you add two anniversaries, because outside of East Asia the production of the "white gold" was first achieved in Meissen in 1708. Since then, however, the triumphal march of porcelain has been unstoppable, and every self-respecting principality founded its own manufactory in the course of the following decades. But only the fewest have survived to this day. The two porcelain manufactories in Fürstenberg and Nymphenburg are among these few. Both founded in 1747, each can look back on 275 years of brilliant and eventful porcelain history.
Dr Katharina Hantschmann is senior conservator and consultant for ceramics and the Meissen porcelain collection of the Ernst Schneider Foundation in Lustheim Castle at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. Among other things, she worked on the groundbreaking exhibition on Franz Anton Bustelli and the accompanying catalogue.
Dr Christian Lechelt is the director of the Museum Schloss Fürstenberg in Fürstenberg on the Weser. With his publication on the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory from 1859 to the present, he presented a work that illuminates its recent and most recent history.
This lecture in the lecture series will exceptionally take place at Porzellanikon in Selb.
Address:
Porzellanikon Selb
Werner-Schürer-Platz 1
95100 Selb
The price is the museum entrance fee. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Please register by 13 October 2022 at besuchercenter@porzellanikon.org or phone: +49 9287 918000.
The fifth and thus last lecture with Dr. Arnd Kluge on "Successes without end - the porcelain industry of Upper Franconia until 1914" will take place on 27 October at 7 p.m. as usual at Porzellanikon in Hohenberg a.d. Eger.
Dr Christian Lechelt, Copyright: Museum Schloss Fürstenberg, Photo: Claudia Warneke
Dr Katharina Hantschmann, Senior Conservator at the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, Meissen Porcelain Collection Ernst Schneider Foundation in Lustheim Castle, ©private
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