Wall mask, dark skin young woman, Albert Strunz, 1959 for Cortendorf, Germany

Wall mask, dark skin young woman, three-quarters profile, bandeau, necklace, stoneware.
The carnation was sprayed over with cellulose lacquer, painted with meticulous care, hair and necklace glazed turquoise blue, lips glazed red.

Design: Albert Strunz, 1959.
Implementation: Porzellanfabrik Cortendorf, Mdnr. 3440, 1959-1963 in production.
Marked: Farbstempel C with a crown, framed (stamped in blue) on the back; four-digit model number 3440 (impressed).
Measure: diameter circa 11,2 x 9 inches (28,5 x 23 cm)

Condition: without chips, slight scratches in the glaze on the forehead, cheek and neck.

EUR 180,00 inkl. MwSt.

Includes 19% Mwst.
Delivery Time: ca. 3-4 Werktage nach Zahlungseingang

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Description

The ceramic wall mask is an autonomous art form in its own right, it is both new and not directly modelled on recognisable prototypes.

From the mid-1950s at the latest, all reputable ceramic firms felt constrained to include wall masks in their product range which propagated the ‘new’ modern image of the woman. As role models and inspiration for artists served the ‘beauties’ of the day, like Marilyn Monroe, Josephine Baker, Romy Schneider or Conny Froboess.

The typical wall masks in the first years represent a young woman with long hair, tied up in a ponytail, with lush red lips and wearing a turquoise blue necklace or scarf. The colour blue was designated the colour of fidelity and the book „Schön sein – Schön bleiben“, which was published in 1955, reduced all the publications of the day to a common denominator: ‘The uncomplicated, mature, lively woman should have a preference for blue; the blue of the robes of a madonna lets some blonde appear as angels. Whether it is really her…?’

The Cortendorf wall masks designed by Albert Strunz – like this model with the no. 3440, which belongs to the first wave of his wall masks – represent innovation in both form and content. As for form, he consistently rejected vertical symmetry and frontality. A transition from half to three-quarters and full profile can be traced.

Lit.: Horst Makus: 50er Jahre Wandmasken, Schönheit und Exotik, Stuttgart 2000, S.206; cp. Schaulade 1958, S.405.

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Weight 3 kg

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