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The roots of Haas & Czjzek porcelain can be found in 1792, when the first Czech porcelain manufactory was founded. Johann Georg Paulus was responsible for its foundation. In 1812, the factory was granted the privilege to produce whiteware and after about 55 years (1867), Georg Haas and Johann Czjzek took over the company.
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Georg Haas (1841-1914) was born the son of the landowner and industrialist August Eusebius Haas (1804-1871). He studied chemistry at the Vienna Polytechnic and after graduating took over his father's porcelain factory in Horní Slavkov and together with his cousin Johann Baptist Czjzek von Smidaich (1841-1925) owned the famous firm Haas & Czjzek, founded in 1792. Their company became one of the largest porcelain factories in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the first porcelain factory in the Czech lands.
Over the pages of this featured book, the reader can marvel at the depicted fragility of the porcelain shard and the delicate elegance of the decoration from one of the most famous brands, Haas & Czjzek. This is a brand that is inextricably linked to the oldest successful porcelain production in the Czech lands and which maintained active production from the late eighteenth century until the twenty-first. In order to ensure that the brand does not disappear even in this century and can represent the importance of the talent and skill of Czech heads and hands, the protagonists of the Bohemia Porcelain Story project are taking care of this.
The purpose of this book is not to provide the reader with comprehensive information on the problems of porcelain production and decoration. Nor is it a dramatic-historical treatise on the development of porcelain production in the world and the Czech lands, which would have to be read systematically from the first page to the last. Instead, it is enough to sit back, leaf through the book and let the subtle charm of the designs work on you and feel the drama and glory of ages long past.
The book will take you deep into the past, to a time when porcelain in the Czech lands was just beginning.
The book will be available for purchase on our e-shop very soon. All porcelain lovers have something to look forward to in the new year 2024.
It can be recognized immediately from the beginning thanks to the big "S". She began writing her story in 1792, at a time when the Bohemian Kingdom was the most industrially developed part of the Austrian Empire. The Czech porcelain story, inseparably linked to Horní Slavkov, is hardly rivalled by its longevity in the history of industrial development in the Czech lands. It is a very important first in the field. Production under the Haas & Czjzek brand can be safely described as the cradle of Czech porcelain. It is necessary to pay tribute to all those who, from the very beginning of the porcelain factory's existence until today, have jointly made this brand famous in all corners of the cultural world. And it is important that the brand's stamp should not be overtaken by the dust of oblivion. For all those involved in the Bohemia Porcelain Story project, it is therefore a great honour to play a part in preserving the fame of the Haas & Czjzek brand. Since this brand symbolizes the cradle of porcelain production in Bohemia, it is very important to preserve, spread and develop this legacy.
Of course, we also create designs for clients in the hotel and restaurant industry. These include the Julis Café Schindler, Park Hotel Villach, Tigris Pallace Hotel.
The design proposals also include work for world-famous clients such as Bata, Škoda, Martini, Esso, Meinl coffee, Plzeňský prazdroj and Becher.
1792 Founding of the family business, which, under the later brand Haas & Czjzek, produced the most porcelain in the entire Habsburg Monarchy.
1793 Attempt to obtain an imperial privilege to produce porcelain, but the request was not granted.
1800 The business was sold to Luise Greiner.
1803 Jan Jiří Lippert, a doctor from Slavkov, son-in-law of Luisi Greiner, enters the company.
1808 Jan Jiří Lippert buys the remaining share of Luise Greiner. After combining his efforts with the mining master Václav Haas, the company begins to prosper under the name "Lippert and Haas".
1812 Visit of Emperor Franz Joseph I. - Privilege to produce porcelain granted.
1817 A happier period begins for the Upper Slavkov factory.
1819 Factory begins to mark its products with a three-digit year.
1837 A copper press is introduced into the technological processes.
1844 Participation of the company at an exhibition in Berlin.
1845 The Second Rococo collection won a gold medal at the General Exhibition of Industrial Products in Vienna.
1851 The Imperial Service, specially designed for the Imperial Court in Vienna, is produced.
1854 Participation of the company at the exhibition in Munich.
1855 Participation of the company at the exhibition in Paris.
1867 August Haas was succeeded by his son Georg and his nephew Johann Czjzek, and the Haas & Czjzek brand appeared for the first time. Four years later, they bought the Portheim porcelain factory in Chodov.
1885 Haas acquires the Mostov castle for his wife Olga and a new family residence is built there.
1899 Both co-owners were awarded titles of nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph I for their merits in the development of porcelain production - Georg Baron Haas von Hasenfels and Johann Czjzek Edler von Smidaich.
1912 Baron Haas von Hasenfels buys Bítov Castle in South Moravia for his son Georg.
1926 An art department for figurative porcelain was established under the direction of the academic sculptor Emil Stefan.
1937 Grand prize for the "art deco" collection presented at the World Exhibition of Art and Technology in Paris.
1938 Sets No. 2370 under the name Trianon, later Maria Theresia, still in production today as Simona and No. 2380 Schonbrunn.
1945 Nationalization on the basis of the Benes Decrees.
1958 The company becomes part of Karlovarský porcelán n.p.
1988 Transformation to Karlovarský porcelán s.p. takes place 1992 Direct sale by resolution of the Government of the Czech Republic to a private investor.
1992 On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of its foundation, the porcelain factory was declared a cultural technical monument and then successfully privatised. A return to the traditional name of Haas & Czjzek. A replica of an Empire cup under the name Johann is modelled. Restoration of the tombstone of George Lippert in the Slavkov cemetery
1997 Gold and silver commemorative medals issued to mark 205 years since the founding of the company. The Diamant coffee set in the production programme follows the unique phenomenon of Czech Cubism.
2011 Closure of production, closure of the factory.
2018 The Haas & Czjzek brand once again passes into the private hands of a Czech family.
2020 Production of small porcelain crosses etc. small batches and limited editions.
Porcelain cross decorated with gold. One of a kind, unique. For all lovers of fine beauty, traditional and lasting values. A gift that you can make happy not only yourself, but also your loved ones and important people around you.
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The porcelain palm sized cross by Haas & Czjzek from 1792 (on products marked S and S 1792) is defined by its noble origin, minimalist concept and the material from which it is made.
Due to the extraordinarily long tradition of this famous and popular porcelain brand, we have returned to the original S marking to better express our respect and admiration for those who founded, produced and worked in the years before us. And also as a de facto proof of respect for the nation's traditions and enduring values.
For your permanently happy days.
Whatever good and beautiful you have done, for the benefit of others, remains forever.
For all the memorials, friends, admirers, interested parties, visitors, users, proud Czechs and wholehearted supporters of the brand who choose to be part of our efforts, who want to contribute to the improvement of the BPS website, contribute and support the project with a financial contribution (donation) intended for our further development and dissemination of information, we have prepared a thematic thanks in the form of a newly published book Porcelain Baron Haas and a palm-sized porcelain miniature in the form of limited crosses with the bottom mark in the variant "S" 1792. The themed thank you applies to all donations over 100 €.
