Abraham Leihammer

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Abraham Leihammer (* 1745 ; † December 4, 1774 in Stockelsdorf ) was a North German faience painter of the Rococo .

Life

Stockelsdorf furnace

Leihammer was the son of the Dutch-born faience painter Johann Leihammer (1721 - after April 1778), who specialized in flower motifs, with whom he later also worked and whose artistic performance he far exceeded. In 1767 Abraham Leihammer married the daughter Catharina Theresia of the director of the Eckernförde faience factory , Johann Buchwald . In 1769, father and son Leihammer accompanied their father-in-law Buchwald to Kiel, where he took over the management of the Kiel faience manufacture and all three worked together until 1771. The three faience specialists also went together to Stockelsdorf in 1772 at the gates of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, where they worked together in the Stockelsdorf faience factory until Abraham Leihammer's early death . It was demonstrably the versatile paintings of Abraham Leihammer that made the artistically outstanding value of the three mentioned faiences. He knew equally well how to create figures, landscape and flower motifs. Konrad Hüseler refers to a Eckernförde fountain in the Copenhagen collection of the Danish film pioneer Ole Olsen as one of the apt main examples of Leihammer's flower paintings, from the Kiel time on potpourri vases with landscape scenes after engraved models by Visscher , which in turn go back to Jan van Goyen , as well as seascapes and shepherd scenes . Outstanding highlights for the Kiel period are a bishop's bowl , a shape and name that alludes to a punch that was popular at the time in the shape of a miter , with equestrian battles and drinking scenes, as well as a tea table top with landscape motifs, both in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg . The famous Stockelsdorf ovens come from his last creative phase in Stockelsdorf .

Museum property

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Hüseler: Leihamer, Johann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 594 .
  2. ↑ Abraham Leihammer collections.vam.ac.uk.
personal data
SURNAME Loan hammer, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loan hammer, loanee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Rococo faience painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1745
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1774
Place of death Stockelsdorf