Adelbert Niemeyer

Adelbert Niemeyer was born in Warburg, Westphalia in 1867 and studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. In 1888 he moved to Paris to attend the Académie Julien, one of the most famous private art academies of its time. In 1892, Niemeyer, who throughout his life resisted the rigid hierarchies of the art establishment, was one of the founding members of the Munich Secession artists' association. Ten years later, he co-founded the Munich Workshops for Home Furnishings, which became part of the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907. The aim of the Werkbund was to introduce the quality of handcrafted culture into the mass production that was beginning at the time. Niemeyer's designs countered the ostentatious historicism and Art Nouveau with simplicity and grace. From 1905 he worked for Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg.
Porzellan Manufaktur nymphenburg
Nymphenburg ist die letzte Reinstmanufaktur ihrer Art. Seit der Gründung im Jahre 1747 wird in der Manufaktur des Bayerischen Königshauses die hohe Kunst der Porzellanherstellung gepflegt. Manu factum bedeutet dort bis zum heutigen Tage: komplett von Hand gemacht in Techniken, die von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben und bewahrt werden.