Founded in 1885, the Vienna-based Goldscheider manufactory quickly rose to the forefront of European ceramics, producing figures and vessels in the contemporary styles of Historicism, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco from faience, terracotta, bronze, and alabaster at the highest artistic and technical levels. This was aided by collaborations with renowned sculptors and ceramicists such as Demetre Chiparus, Walter Bosse, and Josef Lorenzl, who provided numerous designs. However, this success story was abruptly interrupted by the Aryanization in 1938: the Goldscheider family had to emigrate, and the business was sold to a new owner who could not maintain the high artistic standards. Although the Goldscheider brothers established new ceramic businesses in exile in the USA and England, Walter Goldscheider returned after the war.