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Jakob Julius Scharvogel is born in Mainz (DE) on April 3, 1854. After commercial training and working autodidactically as a ceramist, Scharvogel took up a management position at Villeroy & Boch in Mettlach. This was followed by a period in Leipzig until he moved to Munich in 1897 as a founding member of the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk (United Workshops for Art in Crafts). There he ran his own workshop before he was commissioned in 1904 to set up a ceramic workshop in Darmstadt. Scharvogel specialised in the development and production of weather-resistant architectural ceramics and terracotta reliefs for garden design. Among his largest commissions were the ceramic elements for Darmstadt’s main railway station, the Sprudelhof in Bad Nauheim, and the Kaiser-Friedrich-Bad in Wiesbaden. Scharvogel returned to Munich in 1913, where he received a teaching position at the Technical University. Images :Julius Scharvogel, Bad Nauheim, room with architectural ceramics after design by Scharvogel (photo Capriolus); Bad Nauheim, patio with architectural ceramics after design by Scharvogel (photo Capriolus); small vase with blue top (source Invaluable); small vase with white top (source Invaluable); set of two vases, collection Museum Margarethenhohe Darmstadt (photo Capriolus); artist stamp.
* Jakob Julius Scharvogel, Keramiker des Jugendstils, Arnoldsche 1996.
