Paul Dachsel Art

Paul Dachsel was the son-in-law of Alfred Stellmacher, the founder of Amphora Pottery company in Turn-Teplitz, then in Austria. Very little is known or was written about Dachsel. He served as a designer at Amphora from 1893 until 1905. There, he was instrumental in creating new motifs and designs inspired by the voluptuous, organic Art Nouveau style, as well as incorporating Japanese shapes, such as the sake bottle, to a traditional Victorian vase body. Very soon, most of the vases had converted to Art Nouveau in shape and decoration. In 1905, Dachsel founded his own pottery studio, Kunstkeramik Paul Dachsel. He continued to draw inspiration from Art Nouveau and created designs that favored simple forms elaborated with applied handles, rims, and ornaments. In many examples, he favored tertiary colors and folded, flat, and soft-edged shapes, giving his work a fairy-tale quality. Dachsel’s ceramic studio remained in business until 1911. The esteemed Viennese retailer and manufacturer of porcelain and ceramic ware, Ernst Wahliss Kunst, Porzellan und Faience Fabrik rolled out its Serapis Wahliss...

Paul Dachsel was the son-in-law of Alfred Stellmacher, the founder of Amphora Pottery company in Turn-Teplitz, then in Austria. Very little is known or was written about Dachsel. He ...

Paul Dachsel was the son-in-law of Alfred Stellmacher, the founder of Amphora Pottery company in Turn-Teplitz, then in Austria. Very little is known or was written about Dachsel. He ...

NOCTURNAL RISING BAT VASE by AMPHORA, Model #668, c. 1900, in porcelain with applied detailing of bats, fruiting stalks and lilies interpreted as opium poppies, the vase has an iridescent pink underglaze that is enhanced with gold paint and a hand-painted moonlit treed landscape in celadon, olive and moss greens accented by umber and aqua marine; the long neck joins the body of the vase in a gently swelling gourd shape which terminates on a slightly tapered round base; marked on the base with manufacturer’s red stamp showing “Turn.Teplitz Bohemia/.R St K.” around a central amphora vase and below “made in Au(stria)”, imprinted in clay with the firm’s mark encased in an oval: “AMPHORA” with style number: “8761” and decorator’s mark: “52”; measuring: 221/2” H x 9” at its widest point. Made during Amphora’s high point in the creation of decorative porcelain under lead designer, Paul...