Ignaz Preissler

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Plate depicting Atilius Regulus fighting the snake, around 1725

Ignaz Preissler (also Preißler ; Preußler * 1676 in Friedrichswald , Hradec Kralove , † 1741 in Kronstadt ) one was glass and porcelain painter of the Baroque . His preferred technique was black solder painting .

Life

Liquor bottle, 1720/30

Ignaz Preissler came from the Preußler family of glassmakers , who originally came from the Ore Mountains and whose Silesian branch operated glassworks on the Silesian side of the Jizera and Giant Mountains and in the Waldenburger Bergland .

Ignaz Preissler was born in the Bohemian Friedrichswald in the Eagle Mountains , where his father Daniel Preissler (1636–1733) worked as a glass and porcelain painter at the glassworks founded by Hans Friedrich . Ignaz Preissler's godmother was Anna Maria Peterhansel, wife of Adam Paul Peterhansel , who had owned the Friedrichswald glassworks since 1652. In 1680 the Preißler family moved to the nearby Kronstadt , where Daniel Preißler ran his own workshop as his glass and porcelain painter with the landlord Franz Karl Liebsteinsky von Kolowrat , who owned the Reichenau estate .

Ignaz Preissler learned black solder painting on glass and porcelain from his father. It is believed that he spent part of his training in Nuremberg. After his apprenticeship and traveling years he went to Breslau between 1715 and 1720, where he received orders for Dr. Ernst Benjamin von Löwenstädt carried out. Around 1729 he entered the service of Kolowrat and, like his father, worked for their glassworks in the Eagle Mountains until the end of his life. In addition, he probably carried out work for other clients from time to time.

There are chinoiseries on Meissen porcelain that bear Preissler's signature without any connection to the Electorate of Saxony or the Elector Augustus the Strong being able to be proven.

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Preissler's painting on glasses, bottles, mugs and jugs as well as tableware shows a variety of motifs. Coats of arms in connection with floral ornaments were popular. Allegorical subjects were also common. Preissler also showed a preference for the art of East Asia, which had spread throughout Europe in the first half of the 18th century. Chinese figures between foliage and Asian ornaments, as well as bird motifs, appear frequently on the more than 200 objects that he painted on behalf of the Count. Ignaz Preissler signed his works, which was rarely the case in the baroque era.

Preissler glass can be found in various museums such as the Passau Glass Museum , the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles , the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and the Cleveland Museum of Art . In the Muzeum Narodowe in Kielce is the altarist's cup that Ignaz Preissler created in Wroclaw in 1720 . Rudolf von Strasser's private collection was shown in 2002 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna . Signed pieces by Preissler only appear very rarely at auctions.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ignaz Preissler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Václav Šplíchal, Jaroslav Sula: Bedřichovsko-kaiserwaldský sklářský okruh. In: Kladský sborník 5, 2003, p. 132
personal data
SURNAME Preissler, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preißler, Ignaz; Preussler, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Glass and porcelain painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1676
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedřichovka (Orlické Záhoří) , Königgrätzer district
DATE OF DEATH 1741
Place of death Kunštát u Orlického Záhoří