Lot 417
A porcelain bust of Theodor Wieseler, Hermann Joachim Pagels (1876 - 1959), 1926
Works of Art, Antiquities & Ancient Art | A109kua | Live auction | 1190 Lots
Description
Porcelain. Rectangular base, fully sculpted bust of Theodor Wieseler. Front face titled “THEODOR-WIESELER”. Signed and dated to the side “H-J-PAGELS 1926”. Base and one lateral edge chipped. Dimensions: 22 x 15 x 9.7 cm. Theodor Wieseler (1859 Langendorf – 1924 Nuremberg) was a Nuremberg wholesale and retail merchant of glass and porcelain goods who founded the Nürnberger Bund, a purchasing cooperative still in existence today, headquartered in Essen. The company operated shops for porcelain and glassware in Nuremberg and Erlangen. On 1.10.1998, WMF acquired the trading house, which continued under the name W.M.F. Fachgeschäft Wieseler & Mahler A.G. After 132 years, the long-established homeware retailer Wieseler & Mahler closed its shop at Karolinenstraße 27 in Nuremberg in September 2018. Hermann Joachim Pagels (1876–1959) was a sculptor active in Berlin who exhibited regularly on prestigious occasions, winning, for example, a bronze medal at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904. He also participated in every GDK in Munich from 1938 to 1944, producing busts of significant party members for those exhibitions. A sculpture by Pagels was acquired by Adolf Hitler. His designs were also executed in porcelain by both KPM and the Allacher manufacory.Condition: II - Questions about the lot?
