Feuer & Form

  Die Keramikkunst hat in Österreich eine lange und reiche Geschichte, die von der prähistorischen Töpferei bis hin zu modernen Avantgarde-Designs reicht. Diese vielseitige Kunstform spiegelt nicht nur das kulturelle Erbe des Landes wider, sondern auch seine kontinuierliche Entwicklung und Innovationskraft. In dieser Artikel tauchen wir in die faszinierende Welt der österreichischen Keramik ein und entdecken ihre Meilensteine, Persönlichkeiten und Einflüsse.   Die Anfänge: Von der Urgeschichte bis zur Renaissance    Die Geschichte der Keramik in Österreich beginnt bereits in der Jungsteinzeit, etwa 5000 v. Chr., als die ersten sesshaften Gesellschaften mit der Herstellung einfacher Tongefäße begannen. Diese frühen Keramiken dienten hauptsächlich praktischen Zwecken wie der Lagerung von Lebensmitteln und Wasser.  Ein wichtiger Wendepunkt kam im Mittelalter, als sich die Klosterkeramik entwickelte. Die Klöster, insbesondere in Stift Melk und Stift Kremsm...

China, which is peak pottery appeared in China in IV-VI centuries. The invention of porcelain was associated with the desire to find a replacement for expensive and fashionable jade ware. Therefore, the first porcelain had green or bluish gray. The greatest flowering of porcelain production belongs to the XV century, the era of the Ming Dynasty. By far the most expensive china is made in Jiangxi Province in the workshops Tszindechzhenya. With the X century porcelain begin to produce in Korea. In Japan, the production of porcelain appeared in the XVI-XVII centuries. under the influence of China and Korea. Especially known products, the Arita (aka Imari) Painted enamel on a white background (flowers, birds). Depending on the weight and composition of the porcelain glaze different hard and soft porcelain. Certain intermediate species is represented by the so-called bone china. Hard porcelain mainly contains two source material: kaolin and feldspar (sometimes in conjunction with...

For the first time in Europe china brought the famous traveler Marco Polo in the late 13th century. Prized porcelain was very expensive and luxury. Porcelain tea-cup was weighed in the balance and pay for it by weight, the same amount of gold. Dozens of foreigners posing as merchants and travelers, trying to learn the secret of Chinese porcelain, but this mystery is not revealed until now. While many researchers realize that the secret lies in the amount and the ratio of raw materials used to prepare porcelain mass. While some still became known to Europeans. We managed to find out what your made of porcelain Chinese porcelain stone. Rock composed of quartz and mica.   Chinese turn the rock into a powder, mixed with white clay - kaolin and fired this mass in furnaces at temperatures over 1000 degrees Through trial and error, the Europeans still managed to create his porcelain paste from local raw materials. Was created by white European porcelain. For the first time this has...