Friedrich Goldscheider

Friedrich Goldscheider relied on the creativity of young artists. He traded with Karlovy Vary porcelain until 1885, before founding the "Goldscheidersche Porzellan-Manufactur und Majolica-Fabrik" in Vienna. Naturalistically painted models of wool merchants, statues or darkly patinated busts of Arabs and Berbers met the orientalized taste of the time and earned Friedrich Goldscheider several awards. Non-European peoples were popular motifs at the time of historicism / orientalism and reflected the European fears and yearnings. Especially in Central Europe, where the colonization of distant countries began later than in Spain, the Netherlands or Great Britain, the exotic on the one hand symbolized the savage and uncivilized man that had to be civilized, and on the other served as a projection screen for latent erotic fantasies.