Symposium on the official start of academic preparations for the anniversary exhibition 300 Years of the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur in 2018 at the MAK, which identified and presented current topics and problems of porcelain research on the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur.
International porcelain experts and historians discussed selected topics in the symposium, with contributions ranging from porcelain production in Vienna to the various areas of Viennese porcelain and the history of collecting Viennese porcelain in the past and today. Various facets of the factory’s relationship to other porcelain manufacturers in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were also covered.
Academic conception of the symposium:
Rainald Franz, Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection
Welcome and introduction: purpose and goal of the symposium
Rainald Franz, curator, 300 Years of the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur; curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection
Prints from the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur at the MAK
Ulrike Scholda, art historian and research associate at the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection and at Patrick Kovacs Kunsthandel, Vienna
“En public” to “en retirado”: dining ceremonial at the Viennese court in the first half of the 18th century
Michael Pölzl, FWF project contributor, Austrian Institute of Historical Research, Vienna
Vienna, Florence and Turin: the Du Paquier manufactory and its influence on early Italian porcelain (in English)
Andreina d’Agliano, curator, porcelain expert and researcher, Turin
Looking at Du Paquier-period Vienna porcelain with Meissen eyes: some thoughts on avenues of contrast and comparison (in English)
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, art historian, curator, and lecturer, New York
The Du Paquier and Meissen porcelain manufactories
Katharina Hantschmann, head curator for ceramics, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
The travels of an arcanist, Joseph Jacob Ringler (in English)
Errol Manners, E & H Manners, London
From Vienna to Munich: The modeler Josef Ponhauser and the painter Andreas Oettner in Neudeck
Alfred Ziffer, art historian, vice president of the Gesellschaft der Keramikfreunde e. V., and editor of the magazine Keramos, Munich
The development of prices for Viennese porcelain at the Dorotheum in Vienna from 1990 to 2014
Ursula Rohringer, expert on glass and porcelain at the Dorotheum, Vienna
“Looking the portrait in the eyes”: toward a complex view of imperial busts in Viennese bisque porcelain
Annette Ahrens, expert on porcelain as well as historical and present-day table culture, Vienna
Portrait busts in Viennese porcelain
Stefan Schnöll, art historian, Vienna
Viennese porcelain figures in the 18th century as contemporary witnesses
Elisabeth Sturm, Galerie C. Bednarczyk, Vienna
Flower acrostics from the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur
Waltraud Neuwirth, art historian, curator, and expert on Viennese porcelain, Vienna
The “Hülfswerk von Engelhardtszell” and its impact, 1798–1809+
Michael Macek, cultural manager, musicologist, and theater scholar; research associate, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection, Vienna
“This specimen appears to be of Venetian origin.” The learned collector as museum director: Emanuele d’Azeglio and his Viennese porcelain from the Du Paquier manufactory
Claudia Lehner-Jobst, curator of the Strasser glass collection, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, and the Augarten Porcelain Museum; author and consultant, Vienna
Cristina Maritano, curator for decorative arts, Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Turin
“The inexhaustible object”: Besides sensual pleasure, can collecting Viennese porcelain still be intellectually stimulating and enriching today?
Philipp A. Revertera, curator and collector of Viennese porcelain; forest manager, Scheifling (Styria)
The Viennese porcelain scene around 1904: porcelain collections in Vienna in the 20th century as a social phenomenon in light of provenance research
Leonhard Weidinger, historian and provenance researcher at the MAK commissioned by the Commission for Provenance Research, and multimedia producer
International porcelain experts and historians discussed selected topics in the symposium, with contributions ranging from porcelain production in Vienna to the various areas of Viennese porcelain and the history of collecting Viennese porcelain in the past and today. Various facets of the factory’s relationship to other porcelain manufacturers in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were also covered.
Academic conception of the symposium:
Rainald Franz, Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection
Thu, 15 Oct 2015
Welcome and introduction: purpose and goal of the symposium
Rainald Franz, curator, 300 Years of the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur; curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection
Prints from the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur at the MAK
Ulrike Scholda, art historian and research associate at the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection and at Patrick Kovacs Kunsthandel, Vienna
“En public” to “en retirado”: dining ceremonial at the Viennese court in the first half of the 18th century
Michael Pölzl, FWF project contributor, Austrian Institute of Historical Research, Vienna
Vienna, Florence and Turin: the Du Paquier manufactory and its influence on early Italian porcelain (in English)
Andreina d’Agliano, curator, porcelain expert and researcher, Turin
Looking at Du Paquier-period Vienna porcelain with Meissen eyes: some thoughts on avenues of contrast and comparison (in English)
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, art historian, curator, and lecturer, New York
The Du Paquier and Meissen porcelain manufactories
Katharina Hantschmann, head curator for ceramics, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
The travels of an arcanist, Joseph Jacob Ringler (in English)
Errol Manners, E & H Manners, London
From Vienna to Munich: The modeler Josef Ponhauser and the painter Andreas Oettner in Neudeck
Alfred Ziffer, art historian, vice president of the Gesellschaft der Keramikfreunde e. V., and editor of the magazine Keramos, Munich
The development of prices for Viennese porcelain at the Dorotheum in Vienna from 1990 to 2014
Ursula Rohringer, expert on glass and porcelain at the Dorotheum, Vienna
Fri, 16 Oct 2015
“Looking the portrait in the eyes”: toward a complex view of imperial busts in Viennese bisque porcelain
Annette Ahrens, expert on porcelain as well as historical and present-day table culture, Vienna
Portrait busts in Viennese porcelain
Stefan Schnöll, art historian, Vienna
Viennese porcelain figures in the 18th century as contemporary witnesses
Elisabeth Sturm, Galerie C. Bednarczyk, Vienna
Flower acrostics from the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur
Waltraud Neuwirth, art historian, curator, and expert on Viennese porcelain, Vienna
The “Hülfswerk von Engelhardtszell” and its impact, 1798–1809+
Michael Macek, cultural manager, musicologist, and theater scholar; research associate, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection, Vienna
“This specimen appears to be of Venetian origin.” The learned collector as museum director: Emanuele d’Azeglio and his Viennese porcelain from the Du Paquier manufactory
Claudia Lehner-Jobst, curator of the Strasser glass collection, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, and the Augarten Porcelain Museum; author and consultant, Vienna
Cristina Maritano, curator for decorative arts, Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Turin
“The inexhaustible object”: Besides sensual pleasure, can collecting Viennese porcelain still be intellectually stimulating and enriching today?
Philipp A. Revertera, curator and collector of Viennese porcelain; forest manager, Scheifling (Styria)
The Viennese porcelain scene around 1904: porcelain collections in Vienna in the 20th century as a social phenomenon in light of provenance research
Leonhard Weidinger, historian and provenance researcher at the MAK commissioned by the Commission for Provenance Research, and multimedia producer
