Journal of Danubian Studies and Research (Oct 2019)
Still-Lifes of “The Lesser Dutches” as Primary Sources “The German Flowers” Motifs in Porcelain Ware of European Countries
Abstract
A research objective – to analyse sources of loans of motives “the German flowers” (“the Saxon pattern”, “the Saxon attire”) in the European porcelain and the faience, connected with creativity of known masters of a brush of “the Lesser Dutches”. This is important because of the vectors of the porcelain and faience brands in the Danube, starting from Germany and Austria, continuing to Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine. The research methodology covers the collection of historical-genetic and art criticism and culturological approaches. It also includes set ontological, historical-hronological and a method of the art criticism analysis. The first is connected with an existing in painting of old masters of a genre of a flower still-life. The second – with the list of names of artists, which addressed to the image field and garden flowers in the fine arts of the Netherlands, Holland and Flanders 17–18th centuries. The third will be used for the analysis of products of leading European manufactories of thin ceramics in which assortment patterns “the Saxon attire” have been extended. The results are expected in the presentation of the genesis of the main patterns of the Danube-porcelain-faience of the 20th century “the German flowers” with works of fine art of the Netherlands, Holland and Flanders 17–18th centuries. The result will be an awareness of the vector of development of the décor of the European leading porcelaim and faience centers, where the motifs «the Saxon pattern» were distributed. Scientific novelty is connected with an establishment of interrelation of a decor “German flowers” in the Europian Danubes productions, and a particular in the Ukrainian porcelain-faience of late 18th – early 20th of centuries, with the first models from flowering still-lifes of “the Lesser Dutches” in the 17–18th centuries.
