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  Max Läuger Germany Unique Jugendstil footed bowl inlaid with gold mosaic 1906

  PROF. MAX LÄUGER  (1864-1952)  Karlsruhe, Germany

  Unique Jugendstil ceramic footed bowl inlaid with gold mosaic 1906

  Light and dark green glazed earthenware inlaid with mosaic gold glass squares on four cylindrical feet.

  Marks: ML, K (monogram)338 (incised), 4., MUSTER B.., GESCHTZ

  For other mosaic inlaid works by Max Läuger see: Max Laeuger (1864-1952): sein graphisches, kunsthandwerkliches und keramisches Oeuvre, Elisabeth Kessler-Slotta (Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1985) pp. 178/179; Europäisches Kunstgewerbe 1927, Stadtisches Kunstgewerbe-Museum zu Leipzig, (Leipzig: E.A. Seeman, 1928) p. 86; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration vol. XII “Professor Max Laeuger  Karlsruhe”, pp. 221-237; Modernism:  Modernist Design 1880-1940 (The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis), Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998), p. 86.

  H: 5 3/4″ x Dia: 7 1/4″

  Max Laeuger (or Läuger) was born in Lörrach on September 30, 1864. Laeuger was a self taught ceramicist, studied at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic a hundred miles to the north-west of Lörrach (now Karlsruhe University) and eventually became a professor at the university.  In 1895 after travelling throughout Europe visiting the major cultural centers to study art he was appointed director of the art pottery department of Tonwerke Kanderne close to his home town. He stayed there until 1913 and later took up a similar position at Majolika-Manufaktur in Karlsruhe.

  From 1921 he had his own workshop on the premises formerly owned by the company and produced designs there. The work produced fell into three categories, slip decorated wares designed by Laeuger but produced entirely by the factory, pieces made at the factory but decorated and glazed by Laeuger and one-off pieces by the professor made from beginning to end in his own workshop. All were marketed by Majolika-Manufaktur. Laeuger’s one-off pieces had the brushed initials ‘ML’ and the other works were marked ‘LAEUGER’ or ‘PROF. MAX LAEUGER’

  Through the thirties and into the Second World War he worked on his own, but after his workshop was destroyed in 1944 he returned to Lörrach where he died on December 12, 1952. Laeuger was a major figure in German ceramics. His designs and his glazes had ‘organic’ characteristics that are his signature design and his work is much sought-after by collectors. Examples of Laeuger pieces are on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.

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  Oscar B. Erickson, “Early Morning Rockport”, Oil on canvas c. 1940

  OSCAR B. ERICKSON (1883 – 1970) American

  Early Morning Rockport c. 1940

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: Original exhibition label verso: THE NORTHWEST ART LEAGUE,

  INC., Oscar B. Erickson, Early Morning Rockport, oil

  For brief bibliographical listing see: Who Was Who in American Art,

  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 189.

  Canvas (sight): H: 21” x W: 23”

  Frame: H: 26 1/2” x W: 28 1/2”

  Oscar Erickson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He studied painting and printmaking at the Milwaukee Art League and later at the Herron Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited at the Chicago Academy of the Fine Arts, the Hoosier Salon from 1927 to 1942, the Illinois State Museum, and the Norwegian Club.