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Keramos, was known as the "Wiener Kunst-Keramik und Porzellanmanufaktur". The word Keramos, so also ceramic, comes from the Greek word "Kerameus" and letterly means making pots with clay (Kerameus = potter).
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Vienna has a long porcelain tradition. After Meissen, Vienna was the second European place where hard porcelain was manufactured, after the selling of the manufacturing secret of two Meissenworkers, Hunger en Stölzel, to Claudius Du Paquier. The first piece was made on the 3rd of mai 1719 and still can be seen in a museum in Hamburg.
But now back to the Vianese Keramos. Here several wellknown artists worked, for instance Otto Prutscher, who was teached by Josef Hoffmann of the Wiener Werkstättedie on the Kunstgewerbeschule, the school where he later became professor. The sculpturers Klabena and Anton Klieber (of the famous putto's and lovely depiction of the four seasons). Vienna had a flourishing and variable artscene. One thinks of Gustav Klimt, co-establisher, with Koloman Moser and the architect Joseph Maria Olbrich, of the "Secession", and an important stream in the Jugendstil. Think of the architects Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann, of the musicians Strauss and Léhar, the painters like Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele.
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