Jean II Barraband
Jean II Barraband (the secondary designation "II" serves to distinguish it from his father of the same name, Jean I Barraband ; * around 1677 in Aubusson (Creuse) ; † August 7, 1725 in Berlin ) was a Huguenot religious refugee who worked as a tapestry in Berlin .
Life and family
Jean II Barraband was born in Aubusson around 1677. There his grandfather Ysaac and his father Jean worked as tapestries together with the related Mercier family.
When, with the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, the freedom of religion in France was abolished by Louis XIV , the Barraband family fled from Aubusson along with many other Huguenot tapestries. She followed the Potsdam Edict of the Great Elector , went to Brandenburg in 1686 and settled in Berlin. The Barraband family was numerous, with several generations there and well connected with the Réfugiés community of Brandenburg-Prussia (including the goldsmith Moyse Garrigue from Magdeburg).
Jean II grew up in Berlin. Professionally , he followed the family tradition : he learned the craft of his father and grandfather and also became a carpet maker. Barraband was married to Judith Modéra from Metz . No data are available on progeny . He died in Berlin at the age of 48.
Public work
After the death of his father Jean I Barraband in 1709, Jean II Barraband took over his studio . He also became a partner of Pierre I Mercier in the manufacture in Monbijou Castle . When after the death of Frederick I / III. (1713) and the seizure of power by his son, the "soldier king" Friedrich Wilhelm I , the funds for tapestries were scarce and business partner Pierre I Mercier therefore moved from Berlin to Dresden in 1714 , Jean II Barraband also took over his carpet manufacture in Monbijou Castle.
At this time z. B. the famous "Chinese series", carpets with motifs from the Far East. The Audience with the Emperor of China may be an example of this . The motifs often corresponded to the originals from the French carpet weaving Beauvais, which speaks for the continued lively relationship between the French Huguenots and their country of origin. Barraband steadily expanded the factory so that in 1718 the ground floor of the Marstall was made available to him. A factory , the Delon stocking factory , was located in these rooms .
In 1720 he put the manufactory on a new footing by accepting the merchant Charles Vigne as a partner. Now new motifs were created, many of which were based on pictures by Antoine Watteau .
Charles Vigne later brought the factory to its peak. He employed several hundred workers and delivered not only to Germany, but also to Russia, Sweden and Denmark.
literature
- Ed. Muret: History of the French Colony in Brandenburg-Prussia. Reprinted by Scherer-Verlag Berlin, 1885, p. 46.
- Paul Seidel: The production of tapestries in Berlin II. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections. Volume 12, Volume 4 (1891).
- Franziska Windt: Jean II Barraband - tapestry “The audience with the Emperor of China”. Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2000.
Web links
- Oeuvre d'Art d'Aubusson, VII - Works of art from Aubusson
- Pierre Mercier is appointed as a court wallpaper maker
- Tapestries by Barraband, Mercier and Vigne
- Carpet manufacturer Vigne, Barraband
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg., Magdeburger Kultur- und Wirtschaftsleben No. 22, 1942, pages 150/151
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barraband, Jean II |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1677 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aubusson (Creuse) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1725 |
| Place of death | Berlin |