Keramikmuseum Staufen

About the museum

The Keramikmuseum Staufen is closely tied to the town's pottery tradition: already in the Middle Ages, potters (Hafner) worked in Staufen and made everyday earthenware. The former Hafnerhaus on the edge of the old town bears witness to this; its last residents were the potter Josef Maier and the art ceramicist Egon Bregger, who lived and worked there. The building has been a museum since 1991. The workshop, with its clay pit, potter's wheel and two wood-fired kilns protected as historic monuments, has been preserved.

Josef Maier (1871–1948) initially made utility pottery and, when factory-made goods cut into the potters' sales, developed colorful decorative ceramics with folk sayings. His son-in-law Egon Bregger (1902–1966), trained in the workshop of Otto Lindig in Dornburg, which grew out of the Bauhaus, turned the craft business into an artistic laboratory and made stoneware vases and bowls. The clay figures by the artist Elisabeth Winter-Bonn (1919–2003) address human weaknesses and contain socially critical messages.

The museum, which belongs to the Badisches Landesmuseum, has three areas: the historic Hafnerhaus, a space for exhibitions that change every year, drawn from the ceramics holdings of the Landesmuseum, and the STUDIO, a modern extension. There, the friends' association Förderkreis Keramikmuseum Staufen, founded in 1994, presents works by contemporary ceramicists several times a year. More than 200 artists have already used the STUDIO.

Highlights

• Historic potter's workshop with wheel, clay pit and two wood-fired kilns
• Permanent ceramics exhibition on the upper floor
• Ceramics by Josef Maier and Egon Bregger
• Clay figures by Elisabeth Winter-Bonn
• STUDIO with changing exhibitions of contemporary ceramics

Permanent exhibition

• Dauerausstellung Keramik im Hafnerhaus – On the upper floor of the former Hafnerhaus, the museum displays works from its own collection; the historic workshops are on the first floor.

Founded

1991

Operated by

Badisches Landesmuseum

Admission & discounts

The annually changing exhibition and the STUDIO are part of the museum; no separate price is given.

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Getting there & parking

From Karlsruhe: A 5 toward Freiburg, exit Hausen an der Möhlin, then L 120 to Bad Krozingen and L 123 to Staufen. Navigation address: Wettelbrunner Straße 3, 79219 Staufen im Breisgau.

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