ϟϟ-Porzellanmanufaktur Allach Bückeburger Bäuerin Prof. Richard Forster Modell 45, 1939

Bückeburger Bäuerin (farbig), produced by Prof. Richard Forster of ϟϟ-Porzellanmanufaktur Allach, in 1938, in only 7 examples. This porcelain figurine represents a peasant woman in the traditional costume typical of Bückeburger, a town in the Schaumburg-Lippe district in Lower Saxony. Called Model 45, as shown in the Allach Manufacture catalogue, it is to be considered one of the most important and extraordinary ceramic works of the 20th century. Given its extreme difficulty in manufacturing, due to the meticulousness and precision of the detail, as well as the exceptional accuracy in the application of the enamels, the color and the 24K gold used (polished and satin) for the creation of the micro decorations, the Manufacture of Allach, in Professor Richard Forster, created it in just 7 colored examples, each in turn a unique work as they differed from each other in the colors used in the decoration of the costumes.

In fact, in 1938 only 7 colored and 29 white stickers were produced. In 1939 the Manufacture also produced only two white figurines and none coloured.

Model 45
Year 1938:
White: 29
Color: 7
Year 1939:
White: 2
Color: 0

This extraordinary porcelain figurine was created and made available for purchase only to high officials of the ϟϟ.

Of the 7 examples originally made, only 3, including this one, are currently known.

Its height is 24 cm and the conditions of this specimen are like new.

ϟϟ-Porzellanmanufaktur Allach (München GmbH) was founded in 1925 by the industrialist Franz Nagy together with his partner and decorator Carl Diebitsch.

It is located in the small town of Allach, near Munich in Germany.

Two years after Hitler's rise to power it was "requisitioned" by the ϟϟ and a year later it was included among the industrial activities managed by the Personnel Office of the ϟϟ-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler and entrusted to the control of the ϟϟ-Obersturmbannfuehrer Prof. Diebitsch, head of this office. who dealt with all artistic and architectural affairs of interest to Himmler.

Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer of the ϟϟ, had seen in this purchase the possibility of producing on an industrial scale works of art in porcelain and ceramic which would have represented, in the eyes of Himmler and the Germanic people, the true Aryan-Germanic culture.

Obviously the runes of the ϟϟ were chosen for the brand and the production, as for other productions of the ϟϟ, was not aimed at obtaining profit but rather at creating high quality products. Germany had always had a great tradition in quality porcelain and so Himmler decided that the pieces made in Allach should reflect the form of art and feeling of the Third Reich and of the ϟϟ in particular. Once its production was fully consolidated, the factory came under the control of the Hauptamt Verwaltung Und Wirtschaft (Main Administrative and Economic Department of the ϟϟ) led by Oswald Pohl in 1939.

The ϟϟ-Obersturmbannfuehrer Diebitsch, who became head of the Allach factory, on the occasion of the opening of the Berlin exhibition shop in Leipzigerstrasse 13, on 1 April 1939, said: "No people live longer than the certificates of his Culture. These words of the Führer are our cultural motto. We know that everything we produce will be critically examined by those who come after us and we do not want to leave these future generations a bad impression of our products."

To achieve this result Himmler recruited the best artists of the time: Zuegel, Diebitsch, Karner, Wagenfeld, Forster and Thorak, etc.

The fall of the Third Reich on May 8, 1945 put an end to this production forever.