Max Rossbach

Large unique Art Nouveau dinner service "Gelbe Margerite" for six persons. Max Rossbach for Nymphenburg. Early 20th century. Max Rossbach1871 Leipzig - 1948 Munich Porcelain, glazed, painted in green and yellow onglaze colours. 44 pieces, consisting of six dinner plates, six soup plates, 18 dinner plates, five dessert plates, one round serving plate, three oval serving plates in different sizes, one oval bowl, one large round bowl, one large tureen, one small tureen and one saucière. Mirror, flags, walls and lid from the service "MODERN" with the unique décor "Yellow daisy" with green striped flags and borders. Each with the shield mark with crown and lettering "Nymphenburg" in underglaze blue as well as the embossed shield mark, partly with star and the decor number and painter's mark "1368 VIII" on the underside. Partly with the stamped manufactory mark in red onglaze colour and lettering "Nymphenburg" and partly with the embossed numbers "2", "3" and "6". Design form: 1900-1902 (Max Rossbach); design decor: around 1900 (Hermann Gradl). In Manufaktur Nymphenburg's decor book, "Modern Margarethen flowers in yellow" is noted under decor no. 1368 on the "green and violet background". The unique character of the service offered here is thus formed by the yellow daisy blossoms in combination with the green-striped flag and rim painting of decor "1326". Cf. on the form: Alfred Ziffer: Nymphenburger Moderne. Die Porzellan-Manufaktur im 20. Jahrhundert, Munich 1997, p. 86 ff. Cf. on the decoration: Alfred Ziffer: Nymphenburg Modernism. Die Porzellan-Manufaktur im 20. Jahrhundert, Munich 1997, p. 90, here "Dekor 1326" with stylised pansies and green-striped flag. Lid of the large tureen restored, handles underneath with partial grinding.Handle of the small tureen above with scratch mark. Oval bowl with chip underneath the rim and small chip on the standing ring. Medium sized oval plate with glaze scratch underneath the rim. One dessert plate with an unprofessionally restored chip on the upper left rim (9 cm). Rim (9 cm) and punctual traces of putty on the rim. Four dinner plates with chip or hairline cracks, three partially with rubbed paint layer. One soup plate with a chip on the standing ring, four dinner plates with a chip on the rim. Dimensions: Various sizes. Max Rossbach 1871 Leipzig - 1948 Munich German painter. Trained in decorative arts and painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber. 1894 Begins studies at the Munich Art Academy with Johann Leonhard Raab. On the recommendation of the porcelain manufacturer Ferdinand Selle, the artist received his first commission from Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg in 1899 and in the following year designed the "MODERN" form - the dinner service was very well received at the World Exhibition in Paris and is still regarded today as an authoritative work of Nymphenburg Art Nouveau. From the end of 1902, Rossbach devoted himself exclusively to painting - in particular to impressionist landscape painting and thus left Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory.