Andreas Heege, 2025
n the late 19th and throughout the 20th century, Embrach in the Canton of Zurich had two significant pottery manufacturers: the Zangger pottery factory and art pottery and the company Landert-Keramik (as well as the Ganz stove factory). Neither of the firms have yet been the subject of a comprehensive historical study (so far only Stromer 1999, 162-163), and museum collections rarely contain objects from Embrach.
Information about the company from the website Antik und Rar
1880 Gottlieb Zangger senior sets up a pottery workshop in Embrach.
1913 The company is known as Gottlieb Zangger, proprietor Gottlieb Zangger senior, manufacture and trade of cookware (SOGC 1913)
1921 12th March – Gottlieb Zangger (senior) and Gottlieb Zangger (junior), together with other family members, set up the limited partnership Zangger & Cie., pottery factory and art pottery.
1927 The death is announced of Gottlieb Zangger senior (SOGC 45, 1927, 1287).
1934 8th November – The original company, founded in 1913, is dissolved.
1942-1946 Zangger & Cie. exhibit their wares at the Mustermesse fair in Basel.
SVEA-Nachrichten, Volume 23, no. 22, 15th November 1944
1946 Hedwig Zangger (* 1914 in Embrach; † 1997 in Embrach) and her husband Umberto Neri take over the company Zangger & Co. (Film 1 about the company; Film 2 about the company)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper, Issue 1123, 20th April 1956
1956, 1957, 1958, 1960 Zangger & Cie. exhibit at the Mustermesse fair in Basel (as reported in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper, Issue 1277, 3rd May 1957
1957 Art exhibition in Embrach.
1964 Exhibition in the Altes Amtshaus in Embrach (Die Tat, 14th August 1964).
1965 The company Zangger & Co. goes into liquidation
SOGC 88, 1970, 1117.
1991 Media report and company history
Zangger & Cie. – Marks and stamps (found on the Internet)
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Pottery made by Zangger & Cie. at the Swiss National Museum
Zangger & Cie. on the Internet 1
Zangger & Cie. on the Internet 2
Translation Sandy Haemmerle
