The Wurtemberg Electro Plate Co.
Foundation date: 1853
Function: Bronze founder, bronze foundry
Policy: '...manufacturers of bronzes for architectural & monumental purposes in pure copper bronze.'
History or description: The Wurtemberg Electro Plate Co. was a subsidiary of the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik based in Geislingen. This firm was formed out of a merger between Straub & Sohn (previously Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer, 1853-62) and Ritter & Co, Esslingen in 1880. Other branches of the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik were set up in Warsaw and Vienna in the early 1900s. From the 1890s when the firm took over the Galvanoplastischen Kunstanstalt (Galvanoplasty Art Institute), Munich its products included small statuary, funerary works and architectural decorations.
The company is still operating, see http://www.wmf.com/company/history_517.html?sid=71FF3A03-78B1-41A7-9D3C-CC8A8085E056 (accessed 20 July 2011). There is a copy of one of the Wurtemberg Electro Plate Co's catalogues (dated c. 1920) in the National Art Library.
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed in Post Office London Directory, 1914 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
'Bronze Founders' '...manufacturers of bronzes for architectural & monumental purposes in pure copper bronze.'
Citing this record
'The Wurtemberg Electro Plate Co.', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=ann_1292078075, accessed 25 May 2022]
