ϟϟ-Porzellanmanufaktur Allach "Steigendes Pferd" Prof. Adolf Röhring Modell 95, circa 1939

Steigendes Pferd (Lipizzan or Lusitano prancing horse), created by Prof. Adolf Röhring of the ϟϟ-Porzellanmanufaktur Allach, in 1939. Called Model 95, as shown in the catalog of the Allach Manufacture, it is to be considered one of the most important and extraordinary ceramic works of the 20th century. Given its extreme difficulty in making, due to the meticulousness and precision of the detail, as well as the exceptional accuracy of the color and application of the enamels, the Allach manufacture, in Professor Adolf Röhring, made it in very few examples.

In 1938 only 67 white Steigendes Pferd were produced and none were fully coloured. In 1939 the Manufacture also produced 245 white Steigendes Pferds and none totally coloured, therefore the present example could have been commissioned by or for some high personality of the Reich, in fact it currently appears to be the only Steigendes Pferd model 95 known, colored in the its totality.

These extraordinary porcelain sculptures were created and made available for purchase only to high officials of the ϟϟ and it cannot be ruled out, given the very limited production number, that they were intended to be donated to very important authorities of the Third Reich.

State of conservation: exceptional.

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: Röhring, 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.