Zestaw śniadaniowy różyczki Carl Schumann Porzellanfabrik (1932 - 1996)
Mam do zaoferowania przepiękny zestaw śniadaniowy sztuk 1 z motywem czerwonej róży gdzie w połączeniu ze złotymi zdobieniami sprawia, że zestaw staje się bardzo szlachetny w swojej prostocie. Idealny prezent dla kogoś kto ceni piękno i subtelność.
stan zachowania: bardzo dobry
wymiary
duży talerzyk: średnica 19 cm
mały talerzyk: średnica 14,7 cm
filiżanka: średnica większa 10,2 cm
sygnatura z lat:
- okres: od ca. 1955
- kolor: zielony
lokalizacja: Niemcy / Bawaria / Arzberg
Porzellanfabrik Carl Schumann A.G. (1923 until 1994)
On July 19th 1923 the company was transformed into a corporation and all seemed fine, but three years later Carl Schumann I died at the age of only 55. He was succeeded by his son Carl Schumann II who at the time had been studying in America and later founded the 'Schumann China Corporation of New York' which distributed Schumann products in the U.S. up until the late 1920's. The factory was run by his brother Heinrich during his absence. While the new market in the U.S. at first seemed very promising, the world financial crisis which started in New York on October 25th 1929 put a dramatic end to nearly all Schumann export efforts. But the 'home front' was not much better and the relatively short-lived business in Duisdorf which had specialized on 'Zwiebelmuster' (Blue Onion) and 'Strohblume' (Strawflower) decorated items remained in family hands only until 1935 before it was sold due to economic reasons (see there).
It should be noted that the Carl Schumann company had quite interesting business relations with companies from U.S. and the factory was one of a few that produced items for Ebeling & Reuss which then were sold under the 'Erphila Germany' mark. Another little known fact is that the 'Carl Schumann Porzellanfabrik A.G.' was one of the few German companies allowed to produce Mickey Mouse figurines under license from Disney. They used a beautiful add created by 'Zereiss & Co.' to promote these porcelain products, featuring little Mickeys performing a traditional Bavarian dance. Most of these so-called 'un-aryan' products were destroyed during the Third Reich period from 1934 to 1945 and are therefore among the rarest European pre-war Disneyana collectibles.
Following WW2 the company supported many former Sudeten Germans by offering housing and employment and after founding the house building company 'Schumann-Wohnungsbau G.m.b.H.' in 1950 eventually tried to match former success, reaching its maximum number of 1053 workers and 70 salaried employees in 1953/1954. At that time the factory used three round kilns as well as three complete tunnel kilns as lots of items were needed for the local market but at the same time export numbers stagnated as more and more cheap imports from Japan were flooding the U.S. market and slowly pushing European and especially German items aside. Carl Schumann II resigned in 1961, leaving the business to his son Carl Schumann III before dying in 1975 and having in the meantime been town mayor and declared freeman of Arzberg.
Carl Schumann III during the next few years started the modernization and rationalization of the factory and drastically restructured and downsized the product range. These steps resulted in a much smaller workforce required to run the factory (merely 350 people) but business still steadily declined. The granddaughter of Carl Schumann I, business graduate Sabine Schaefer, finally took over as manager in 1981 and greatly improved business relationships not only in Germany but also in Europe and the USA. A few years later however, German reunification caused drastic changes as former state-owned and then privatized East German companies all fought for shares on the German market.[1]
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