Ludwig Foltz II
Designer
Ludwig Foltz II
Regensburg & Munich, Bavaria.
Architekt, Entwerfer & Modelleur / Architect, Designer & Modeller.
Foltz was born in Bingen am Rhein in 1809. Foltz was also a stonemason and therefore by inference, a Mason.
Most of his stein designs date from the 1840's and 1850's.
In 1837 he was a teacher at a vocational school in Regensburg, after which he was appointed a professor at Munich Technical College.
Between 1860 and 1863 he was the architect on the completion of the Neupfarrkirche, Regensburg.
Finally, he finished his days creating statues and other stone & wood carvings at the Frauenkirche in Munich.
He died in Munich in 1867.
Foltz designed for:
Villeroy & Boch (models #6, #24, #32, #33, #103, #168, #171, #202, #225, #231, #328, #454, #762, #1037)
Fun fact: Villeroy & Boch, a staunchly Roman Catholic company, would not have tolerated masonic marks on their steins and once identified, removed them.
However he managed to include his "signature" on new designs in very subtle ways.
Steins based on his designs were also made by
Ernst March Söhne of Charlottenburg-Berlin,
Dorfner & Co and
E. Kick.
References:
Wikipedia
Roy DeSelms / Bob Wilson
heimatforschung-regensburg 1
heimatforschung-regensburg 2
Regensburg Address books
One of the base marks used on Villeroy & Boch - Mettlach #216,
Moulded mark on Villeroy & Boch - Mettlach #225, designed by Ludwig Foltz II.
Moulded mark from one of the Mettlach 328 series of six steins. Foltz's masonic signature is not always easy to find. This mark is the most obtrusive in this series.
Villeroy & Boch - Mettlach #216, thought to have been designed by Ludwig Folz II. The lid has the Brauerstern.(Brewer's Star)
Villeroy & Boch - Mettlach #225, designed by Ludwig Foltz II.
Very rare Ludwig Foltz's Stone-Mason's mark on a Proto-Mettlach stein.
Foltz was an early designer for Villeroy & Boch - Mettlach, together with Ernst March Söhne - Charlottenburg. When Foltz realised his stonemason's marks were being deleted by V&B Mettlach, he devised a more cryptic symbol, a goblet on a shield, or "The Humpenburg Wappen", which was a version of a symbol used by the Munich Artist's Society, of which Foltz's elder brother, Philipp was a member. This symbol is on almost all his designs from the Cologne beakers onward.
Moulded mark on Villeroy & Boch - Mettlach #225, designed by Ludwig Foltz II.
Foltz was an early designer for Villeroy & Boch - Mettlach, together with Ernst March Söhne - Charlottenburg. When Foltz realised his stonemason's marks were being deleted by V&B Mettlach, he devised a more cryptic symbol, a goblet on a shield, or "The Humpenburg Wappen", which was a version of a symbol used by the Munich Artist's Society, of which Foltz's elder brother, Philipp, was a member. This symbol is on almost all his designs from the Cologne beakers onward.
