Carl Kornhas

Carl (Karl) Kornhas (born January 11, 1857 in Villingen ; † March 18, 1931 in Karlsruhe ) was a German ceramist .

Life

Carl Kornhas was born the son of a shoemaker. After an apprenticeship as a sculptor, he attended the arts and crafts schools in Karlsruhe and from 1877 to 1879 those in Nuremberg. On the advice of a teacher at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts, Kornhas stayed in Italy from 1881 to 1895 . There he worked in ceramic factories in Gubbio and Florence . In 1889 he founded his own ceramic workshop in Florence. Since 1883 at the latest he had called himself “Carlo” in Italy. After his return to Karlsruhe in 1895, he kept the "C" in his first name.

From 1895 to 1920 he was a teacher of ceramics at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe, after the school was transferred to the Badische Landeskunstschule in 1920 he also headed the local ceramic class until he retired in 1922. In 1898 he was appointed professor there and on Participation in setting up the ceramic specialist department and the modeling class. After 1922 he founded his own workshop in or near Karlsruhe. He died in 1931 of complications from appendicitis.

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Around 1900, Carl Kornhas, along with Max Laeuger , Jacob Julius Scharvogel and Richard Mutz, was one of the founders of modern German ceramics. As a technically experienced ceramicist, he worked in all ceramic techniques, he created sculptures, reliefs, tile pictures, vases and dishes made of majolica , earthenware and porcelain . His specialties were luster glazes on earthenware and crystal glazes on porcelain. The works made of majolica and earthenware were created as unique items, those made of porcelain as series goods.

Initially under the influence of Italian majolica from the 15th and 16th centuries, Kornhas also turned to Art Nouveau around 1900 . In the 1920s he created works with geometric and vegetable brush decorations. Around 1925 the painter August Babberger designed some decors. The porcelain work was carried out by the porcelain factory in Weingarten (Baden) from approx. 1903 to 1911: in addition to vases and dishes with relief and underglaze decoration, vessels with crystal glaze. The latter received international attention. In addition, Kornhas created drawings with architectural decorations and majolica for the work L'arte a Città di Castello, published in 1897 .

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  Porcelain vase with underglaze painting; Designed by Carl Kornhas, around 1905, manufactured by the Weingarten porcelain factory

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  Vase with luster glaze, designed and manufactured by Carl Kornhas, around 1910

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  Bowl with luster painting, designed and manufactured by Carl Kornhas, around 1925

Exhibitions and estate

Works by Carl Kornhas have been presented at many national and international exhibitions. Above all, the world exhibition in Paris in 1900 , in 1904 in St. Louis and in 1910 in Brussels should be mentioned. Part of Kornhas' estate is kept in the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.

Honors

• 1908: Knight's Cross 1st Class, Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1910: Honorary diploma at the world exhibition in Brussels

literature

• Carl Kornhas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 318 .
• Carl Kornhas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 99 .
• Arthur Mehlstäubler: Master of diversity - the ceramist Carl Kornhas. In: Keramos, Heft 144, 1994, pp. 55-80.
• Meinhold Lurz: Kornha (a) s, Carl (called Carlo). In: Badische Biographie, NF Vol. IV, 1996, p. 169 f.
• Carl Kornhas . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 325.

Web links

Commons : Carl Kornhas  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files