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May 9th, 2021 at 8:17am
 
What relationship do these two pieces have to Adolf Hitler? They were made in the late 1940s.

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Reply #1 - May 9th, 2021 at 12:17pm
 
Anyone?

The pieces were made after Hitler karked it yet are related to Hitler, to some actions of his. Hitler fancied himself an artist.
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Reply #2 - May 9th, 2021 at 12:40pm
 
Hitler banned artists, potters etc from producing art deco items.

So. . .
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Reply #3 - May 9th, 2021 at 3:03pm
 
At the end of WWII when you would expect artists to come up with something like the Edvard Munch painting “The Scream” they instead produced something very different.

Forbidden to make art deco designs by Hitler they resumed making this after Der Fuhrer’s exit from life. Instead of making it angular and sharp like art deco used to be they used curves and their work was called “Deco Echo.”

In the 1950s more color and brighter colors were used and an effect as if the object was made of pumice was developed: in the US by an emigre German and, funnily enough, in East Germany.

By 1960 the original drive by artists to produce “deco echo” or “retro” or “fat lava” art was gone but some factories kept making and selling it to tourists etc. Some pieces from this late 60s–70s look like the aftermath of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I will post some piccys now and then of the best examples I have.
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Reply #4 - May 11th, 2021 at 8:40am
 
This piece, made in East Germany likely in the early 1950s, shows how the term “fat lava” to describe this type of German pottery arose.

The glaze is thick so “fat.” It is pockmarked by pits that look as if they arose from volcanic action.
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Reply #5 - May 11th, 2021 at 8:55am
 
This item is the famous Ruscha facotry (marked 313) pitcher made in the early 1950s.

Three versions were made and pieces like this are made by making a mold, injecting liquid slip and letting it dry. 313 was a complicated mold full of sharp angles (the handle being close to body of the pitcher plus the sharp spout. Quite a few pieces were broken getting them out the mold to the design was changed a bit to put more space between the handle and the body then later changed again to make it easier to take out of the mold for the  tourist trade.

Not sure if my piece is a design 1 or design 2. A lot of dynamism about the design—made less than a decade after the Hitler regime ended with Germany pounded flat by huge bomber raids.
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Reply #6 - May 15th, 2021 at 3:55am
 
I am not an art critic or one who knows much about art. I actually find the Sydney Opera House to be an 'eye irritation'. It is strange that the likes of Hitler would not like artwork or the creation of art. Considering that Hitler was a painter of above-average talent, you would think that Hitler could have been a fanatic of having artwork on display.
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Reply #7 - May 15th, 2021 at 6:15am
 
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Reply #8 - May 15th, 2021 at 2:46pm
 
Adolf Schicklgruber was not much of an artist. After he took over Germany (“Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Arsehole!”) he wanted art to reflect nazi values (to be propaganda in other words) and not be “effete western schtuff” or wtte.
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Reply #9 - May 15th, 2021 at 3:56pm
 
"Not much of an artist"? Google "Hitler art". Hitler was by no means a great artist. But his artwork had some considerable merit. Sure, he might have been the lower end of the art school in terms of talent. But I bet his art work would outdo 90% of the able-bodied population who tried to paint a picture.
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Reply #10 - May 17th, 2021 at 8:25am
 
Seems Hitler would have been better off going for architecture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings_by_Adolf_Hitler
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Reply #11 - May 17th, 2021 at 1:48pm
 
This little piece is ÜKeramik 483/14. The 483 is the mold number (some factories, esp the very commercial Scheurig factory, used the same mold number at different times making googling a piece a bit difficult!)

The 14 is the height of the piece in centimetres tho sometimes you might see “/3” on a very big piece, in this case it means the size is one of several the item is made in.

Googling “UKeramik 483/14” shows the piece was made in the 1960s, towards the end of real creativity in this type of art. You see it was decorated in several different gazes and colors, including a typical bright red.
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Reply #12 - May 17th, 2021 at 1:51pm
 
Well that was riveting ! Roll Eyes
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Reply #13 - May 17th, 2021 at 1:53pm
 
Glad you liked it.
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