Fritz Heckert 'Changeant' Vase designed by Otto Thamm 1901

Description

Fritz Heckert was born in 1837 as the eighth son of the master glazier Johann Andreas Heckert (1789-1852) in Halle an der Saale.
Seven of the nine siblings worked in the glass industry.
After his father’s death, at the age of 15, he went to Berlin to see his brother Carl Ferdinand.
There he learned the trade of a businessman and described himself as a manufacturer from 1863.
In 1862 he acquired a glass grinding shop, the so-called Felsenmühle am
Zacken
near Petersdorf on the edge of the
Giant Mountains
;
In 1866 he founded his glass refinery in Petersdorf, which he was able to expand into a major glass processing company with at times 200 employees, which from 1889 also had a glassworks.
Fritz Heckert died in 1887.
Glass production
His widow, then a son-in-law and, from 1905, his son Bruno Heckert continued the company.
In 1910 Heinrich von Loesch, chamberlain and manor owner on Kammerswaldau, acquired the Heckert company.
From 1911 it traded as Fritz Heckert – Petersdorfer Glashütte KG.
In 1918 the Josephinenhütte of the Reich Count Schaffgotsch bought the Heckert company from the neighboring Schreiberhau.
There was also a merger with the Neumann and Staebe glass company from Hermsdorf / Kynast.
Until 1925 they existed under the name Jo-He-Ky as a limited partnership and then the Heckert company was merged into Josephinenhütte AG Petersdorf, which existed until 1945.
After the end of the Second World War, production was stopped in the
Szklarska Poreba
works
(Schreiberhau) and Piechowice (Petersdorf) continued.
The initially remaining German masters trained a new trunk of Polish skilled workers.
In 1958 the Josephinenhütte was renamed “Huta Julia”.
The glassworks in Szklarska Poreba was closed in 2000.
Thus, the glassworks in Piechowice (Petersdorf) is the only surviving monument of the Josephinenhütte including the Heckert glass refinery and the old,.Heckert  famous glass tradition of the Silesian Giant Mountains.. Heckert reference  by Stefanie Zelasko page 196  ca 1901.
Art Nouveau vase, FRITZ HECKERT. Fritz Heckert, Petersdorf / Silesia, around 1900. Designed in 1901 by Otto Thamm (1860 Gransee – . Pressed bulbous body with a dent at the shoulder, high, convex neck and mouth rim that opens out four times, spherical teardrop