WERNER MESCHEDE ‘AMARYILLIS’ BOTANICAL WALL TILE Nr. 7248 FOR MAJOLIKA KARLSRUHE

A beautiful majolica 'AMARIYLLIS' wall tile designed by Werner Meschede as part of his 'Botanicals' series for Majolika Karlsruhe between 1966 and 1978. WERNER MESCHEDE was one of the most significant majolica designers of the 20th century.  Born in Stuttgart in 1925, he studied under the tutelage of the ceramic artist Max Laüger and began work as a potter in Schorndorf, a small town near Stuttgart, after WWII.  In 1958 Meschede received his mastership from the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.  He was soon hired by MAJOLIKA KARLSRUHE, and for many years he served as its director of screen-printing, producing architectural and garden ceramics as well, both singularly and in series.  Meschede is well known for his botanical series of majolica wall plaques and tiles, as well as numerous lava-glaze vases, crackled items, and plates. MAJOLIKA KARLSRUHE (more formally, Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe) was organized at Karlsruhe in southwest Germany in 1901 when Grand Duke Friedrich I agre