PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A SITTING MINIATURE PINSCHER.
Nymphenburg. 1st half of the 20th c. Model Th. Kaerner; 1914.

Porcelain; decor in colours. Sitting Miniature Pinscher with pointed ears and without collar; raising the left front paw. Height 32cm.
Impressed numerals. Condition A.

Literature:
Ziffer; Alfred: Nymphenburger Moderne; Munich 1997; cf. cat.no. 253; p.168 and 179.

Theodor K鋜ners design of the model without collar from the year 1914 is presumably the predecessor of the design of the dog with collar; created three years later; which is significantly more wide-spread; as the there engraved Bavarian shield simultaneously functioned as an advertising sign.

Alfred Ziffer mentions; in his book on the Nymphenburger Moderne; a wonderful citation by Otto Pelkas on the oeuvre of Theodor K鋜ner: "Nach Wert und Zahl [erg. der Nymphenburger
Tierpalstik] ist Th. K鋜ner f黨rend. Gleich meisterhaft sind seine Farben und Formen. Das
Leben in der Natur verlangt sein Recht auch in der Kunst. Das feinf黨lige Abw鋑en beider
Forderungen gegeneinander ist das Bedeutungsvolle in K鋜ners Kunst. Und wenn man seine
reiche Lebensarbeit darauf ansieht; so wird man finden; dass er es gl鋘zend verstanden
hat; den Naturalismus der Form soweit zu d鋗pfen; dass er nicht st鰎end unter dem
stilisierten farbigen Dekor hervorkommt." (In worth and number Th. K鋜ner is leading. Equally masterful are his colours and forms. Natural life demands its rights even in art. The delicate balancing of both demands against one another is what is meaningful in K鋜ner's art. And when one looks at his entire life's work; one will find that he understood perfectly how to dampen the naturalism of the form sufficiently; so that it does not protrude disruptively from under the stylised colourful decor.) (Ziffer; p.168.).Art trade; Van Ham.