Christian Wilhelm von Löwenfinck

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Christian Wilhelm von Löwenfinck (* 1720 in Meißen ; † February 19, 1753 in Strasbourg ) was a German porcelain and faience painter .

life and work

His parents were Heinrich Wilhelm von Löwenfinck , a poor officer in the last Saxon service, who worked as a porcelain painter in Meißen after his military service , and his wife Anna Magdalene, née. Saxon.

Like his brothers Adam Friedrich and Karl-Heinrich , Christian Wilhelm joined the Meißner factory as a 13-year-old apprentice in May 1734 and finished his apprenticeship there on February 2, 1740. After his two brothers had escaped from Meißen - Karl Heinrich joined the soldier in 1735 Adam Friedrich fled to Bayreuth in 1736 - Christian Wilhelm received his proper release on April 30, 1741 at his own request and went to Fulda , where his brothers both now worked in the field of faience painting. However, his stay there from 1741 to 1743, assumed for example by Hüseler, has not yet been reliably proven.

Together with Karl Heinrich, he joined the Saxon army in 1743 as part of the War of the Austrian Succession , where he served until 1747. He then followed his brother Adam Friedrich to Höchst , where he was involved in setting up the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory and where Christian worked as a color painter. Before his brother Adam Friedrichs left the company there on November 23, 1748, he went to Paul Hannong in Strasbourg, where he worked as a faience painter, where he was later followed by his brother and sister-in-law . Christian Wilhelm died in Strasbourg on February 19, 1753.

As with all other members of the Löwenfinck family, it is difficult with Christian Wilhelm to specifically assign a single piece as an individual work. However, the art historians Konrad Hüseler and Erich Köllmann assume that a native of Strasbourg with the signature "v.Löwenf.peint :." The faience shaving basin marked and painted with flowers, which was formerly owned by the Buxdorf family and is now part of the holdings of the Historisches Museum zu Basel , not as previously assumed by Adam Friedrich, but - due to the style of painting - as a work by Christian Wilhelm consider is.

literature

  • Konrad Hüseler : The family of Löwenfinck and Joseph Philipp Dannhöfer. In: Journal for Art History. 3, 1949, pp. 24-32.
  • Erich Köllmann: To the Löwenfinck question. State and views of research. In: Art History Society of Berlin. Meeting reports. October 1955 to May 1956. New series 4, April 13, 1956, pp. 21-25.
  • Kurt Röder: About a Fulda lidded vase made of frit porcelain and the three von Löwenfinck brothers. In: Journal of the German Association for Art History. 5, 1938, pp. 159-180.
  • Rainer Rückert: Biographical data of the Meißner manufacturers of the 18th century. Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-925058-13-3 , pp. 173-174.
  • Löwenfinck, Christian Wilhelm von. In: General Artist Lexicon . (= Artists of the World. AKL Online. ) De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004ff., ISBN 3-598-41800-0 . (Doc-ID: 00114972).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Hüseler: The family of Löwenfinck and Joseph Philipp Dannhöfer. 1949, p. 25.
  2. ↑ Kurt Röder: About a Fulda lidded vase made of frit porcelain and the three von Löwenfinck brothers. 1938, p. 177.
  3. ↑ Konrad Hüseler: The family of Löwenfinck and Joseph Philipp Dannhöfer. 1949, p. 29.
  4. ↑ Erich Köllmann: On the lion fin question. State and views of research. 1956, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Löwenfinck, Christian Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German porcelain and faience painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1753
Place of death Strasbourg