Hedwig Bollhagen Werkstaetten fuer Keramik

About

Hedwig Bollhagen founded the HB Workshop for Ceramics in 1934, one year after the last Bauhaus enclave was forced to close by the National Socialists. By the time she died in 2001, she had used her sense of style, her free spirit, diligence and courage to transform the workshop into an incomparable, award-winning manufactory and make it a focal point of the creative avant-garde. Well-known personalities of the Weimar Bauhaus movement, such as Werner Burri, Theodor Bogler and Charles Crodel, an artist belonging to the Deutscher Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen) and denounced by the Nazis, found here a place where they could work and they contributed to the style, renown and historical significance of the HB Workshop. Since 2015, the estate of Hedwig Bollhagen has been counted as part of Germany's national treasure, some of the country's most historically valuable works of arts.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 1 hour 30 minutes