Der schöne Schein - beautiful veneer - German faience art

On the occasion of the museum’s anniversary, its important collection of German faience objects will be edited, exhibited and published by museum experts. This outstanding collection comprises roughly 200 objects – crockery and figurines – from various different German faience manufactories of the 18th and early 19th centuries, among them rare individual pieces and faience objects decorated by “Hausmaler”, free-lance home painters. This exhibition will present for the first time the museum’s rich collection of faience objects from Germany. The show will also include other collection areas of the MAKK in order to document the refined domestic culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Alongside the models used for the decoration of faience objects, the exhibition will present exhibits from other collection areas such as textiles, small items of furniture, metal tableware, glasses and cutlery.