83:. Between 1872 and 1877, Victor Mayer served as an apprentice where he underwent the training to become a steel engraver. Then he became one of the first students at the Pforzheim Arts and Crafts School (Pforzheimer Kunstgewerbeschule) founded in 1877 by Grand Duke Friedrich I. After having completed his military service from 1879 until 1882, he could finally set off for a three-year stay in Vienna, which he had planned for a long time. There he gained valuable experience in enamelling and guillochĂ©-engraving, sophisticated techniques which are still being used at the manufacture Victor Mayer today. After returning to Pforzheim, he continued his studies at the Grand Dukeâs Art and Crafts School and received significant commendations in drawing, modelling and design. In 1890 he married Lina nĂ©e Niemand. In the same year he founded the jewellery company Vogel & Mayer in Pforzheim together with the merchant Herrmann Vogel. Herrmann Vogel left the company in 1895 after conflict arose between the partners, and Victor Mayer continued the business alone under his own name. In 1932 he withdrew from operative business and handed over his shares in equal parts to his son Oskar Mayer and his son in law Edmund Mohr. Victor Mayer died in Pforzheim on 13 October 1946.
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over the company management from the founder. Now two of the remaining children, Maria and Oskar Mayer, had to assume the commercial tasks in the company, while Victor Mayer was in charge of the technical management and design. Maria married Edmund Mohr, who became an individually liable partner and co-owner of the company in 1925. In 1932 Victor Mayer withdrew from operative business and handed over his shares in equal parts to his only remaining son Oskar Mayer and his son in law Edmund Mohr. Until 1965 Oskar Mayer and Edmund Mohr were equal partners and responsible co-owners of the company. In this year the two grandsons of Victor Mayer,
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after 1940, he pointed the way forward to the 1950s. Documents from the companyâs archives show that Victor Mayer continued to make significant contributions to the manufactureâs creative designs until short before his death; in 1945 at the age of 88 he designed numerous pieces of jewellery which sold very well until in the 1960s.
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and his cousin Hubert Mayer, took over the management of the company. When Hubert died unexpectedly in 1989, Herbert purchased the original shares held by his cousin to become sole proprietor of the manufacture. In 1989 the company obtained the licence to manufacture Fabergé jewellery and objects of
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Victor Mayerâs creative works embrace four periods. He began in 1885 in the style of historicism at the Arts and Crafts School in
Pforzheim, progressing towards the Jugendstil / Art Nouveau in the early 1900s, moving on to Art Deco after the First World War. With his late avant-garde designs created
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The manufacture Mayer GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1890 by Victor Mayer and
Herrmann Vogel. After Herrmann Vogel had left the company in 1895, Victor Mayer continued the business alone under his name. His two oldest sons, Victor and Julius, died in World War I. They had been designated to take
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In 2003 Herbert Mohr-Mayer left the company and his son Marcus Oliver Mohr became creative director and managing partner. Marcus was appointed a workmaster for
Faberge and continues to create guilloche enamel jewellery and objects of art for Fabergé Ltd., London.
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New York until the brand license was sold. The manufacture Victor Mayer is well known for its high-end jewellery and the preservation of historical artisan techniques such as authentic fire enamel or guilloché.
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Herbert Mohr-Mayer: Von goldenen Eiern und anderen
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Victor Mayer was born in 1857 into a family of thriving entrepreneurs. His father Eduard Mayer (1814â1881) owned a hostel "Zum Kreuz" in
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jewellery by Victor Mayer was shown together with the works of
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art and achieved great success with these pieces until 2009.
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