Jean Adam Acker

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Jean Adam Acker , also Jean-Adam , Johann-Adam and Johann Adam Acker (* 1665 ; † May 23, 1745 in Strasbourg ) was a German stove maker and city tile maker in Strasbourg.

Life

Jean Adam Acker came from Fulda . In Strasbourg he created monumental stoves that were often painted in the factory of his son-in-law Paul Hannong . According to the German biography, one copy is in the Kirschgarten Museum in Basel , another in the Würzburg Residence has not been preserved. In 1731 he designed the ovens for the Hôtel du Grand Doyenné in Strasbourg. According to Hans Haug, Acker had decorated the facade of his house in Blauwolkengasse with plastic ornaments.

Jean Adam Acker was married three times. His first marriage was on November 4, 1691 with Anne Maie [sic!] Mettler in Strasbourg, the second on February 5, 1695 with Marie Madeleine Neirdinger and the third with Marie Elisabeth Weimer. The date of this third marriage is not known; the first daughter Catherine Barbe was born on November 13, 1714. Five more children followed by 1726.

The marriage of Catherine Barbe Acker with Paul Hannong had 15 children, including Karl Franz Hannong, the first manager of the Frankenthal porcelain factory , Joseph Adam Hannong , who later took over its management, and Peter Anton (Pierre Antoine) Hannong , who was also in the Porcelain production was active and among other things founded a factory in Paris .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ However, this contradicts the list of exhibits on the museum website ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. where numerous products from Hannong's manufacture are mentioned, but only François-Paul Acker is mentioned as the designer of the corresponding ovens. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hmb.ch
  2. ^ A b Hans Haug:  Hannong, Paul Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 622 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Simone Meyder, ›More royal than free‹. Robert de Cotte and building in Strasbourg after 1681 (= Studies on Art on the Upper Rhine 4), Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-2181-3 , p. 70
  4. ↑ Strasbourg faience (= home art and household goods once and now 29), Darmstadt 1957, p. 18 . Incidentally, Haug claims there that none of the stoves created by Acker has survived.
  5. ↑ Family tree on genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Acker, Jean Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acker, Jean-Adam Adam; Acker, Johann-Adam Adam; Acker, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stove builder and city tile maker in Strasbourg
DATE OF BIRTH 1665
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1745
Place of death Strasbourg