Vase in classical shape, stoneware with yellow, green matte glaze, molten.

Design: Margarethe Heymann-Loebenstein, before 1929/30.
Manufacturer: „Haël-Werkstätten für Künstlerische Keramik“, Marwitz near Velten/Brandenburg/Germany, form: 311c and decor: 15.
Stamped: underglazed blue, Haël mark, factory marks for the form: 311c and decor: 15.
Measures: 3,34 inch (8,5 cm) high; 4,6 inch (11,8 cm) diameter.

_{In best state. No chips, no scratches.}

The „Haël-Werkstätten für Künstlerische Keramik“ (translated as: Haël-workshops for artistic ceramics) were founded by Margarethe Heymann-Loebenstein in Marwitz by Velten/Brandenburg in 1923, held to 1933.
The characteristic company logo "Haël" was derived from the initials of the name Heymann-Loebenstein, spoken "H" and "L", with the Trema on the "e".
With the seizure of power by the national socialists Margarethe Heymann-Loebenstein was forced on the sale of her workshops because of her Jewish descent. Her ceramics were classified as degenerate and the workshop became aryanized in 1934. Hedwig Bollhagen took over the manufacture.

Margarethe Heymann-Loebenstein was a student of the Weimar Bauhaus in the first generation, continued her training in the ceramic-workshop at Dornburg, which was leaded by Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan. For a short time she was employed as a designer at the stoneware manufacture Velten-Vordamm, leaded by Dr. Hermann Harkort.
Within a few years the Haël-Werkstatten grew up in Germany and abroad to a renowned manufacturer. The company was included in the membership of the German Werkbund.
The only one decade producing, the "Haël-Werkstatten" have revitalised the manufacturing of stoneware substantially.
During the time of the Weimar Republic these ceramics mediated in Germany the standards of the Werkbund and the aesthetics of the Bauhaus.

All write-ups to the year of the design are based on the two preserved price books from the years 1923/34 and 1929/30. The here offered vase was offered in the second catalog. Therefore the draft was before 1929/30.

Margarethe Heymann-Loebenstein impressed by glazes, whose intensity and luminosity were unrivalled in the field of stoneware and especially porcelain. She could produce various classical forms, industrially in the casting process. The technical quality of the coloured glazes and formal precision of her thin-walled ceramics were outstanding, in comparison to the products of other companies this time. In this piece green pigments were sprayed onto a yellow fond. The green will appear so fine and soft, his transitions to the yellow pleasant like pastelcolour.
Haël ceramics were directed to a modern new life-affirming purchasing public with a sense for quality.

Cp et al.: H. Rezepa-Zabel: Haël, in: Sammler Journal, Nov. 2011, p.38-47.

Other objects from “Haël-Werkstätten für Künstlerische Keramik“, Margarethe Heymann-Loebenstein – Marks:
Bowl, faience, before 1929/30,
Teapot, stoneware, Haël norma, 1930,
Bowl, stoneware, before 1929/30,
Vase glazed, stoneware, before 1929/30,
Little vase glazed, stoneware,
Big vase glazed, stoneware, before 1929/30,
Bowl, 1923/24,