Jochim Möller

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Jochim Möller († 1795 ) was a German faience maker. In 1785 Möller acquired a faience factory in Kellinghusen ( Schleswig-Holstein ) from the heirs of Carsten Behrens , which he ran until his death.

Act

Möller was the successor to the first faience manufacturer , Carsten Behrens, who founded his company in 1757 with former employees from the Meissen porcelain production. He ran the company from 1791 under his name as "Royal Danish privileged faience fabrique". After his early death, his widow married Hans Jacob Stemmann, who previously worked as a journeyman in the factory. The son Hans Möller is said to have opened his own workshop in 1816. From 1800 the name of the company continued in the Möller factory building in Straße im Sande was: “Doctor Grauers Fayance-Fabrique”. The factory was operated until 1825.

In his factory, among other things, square wall panels were produced in 1794 with a picture of the factory building and the inscription "The Royal Danish Privilege - Fayance - Fabrique". The actual brand also consisted of the letters KH/Mwhich stood for Kellinghusen Möller.

Historical background

Sebastian Heinrich Kirch came to Kellinghusen from Jever in 1765 and had started making faience together with Carsten Behrens, Wulff Friedrich Linkhusen and Anna Büntzen (née Behrens). On February 28 of that year, they asked King Frederick V of Denmark to grant them a royal privilege, which they were granted. After the death of Behrens in 1782, the sole owner of the factory, this privilege passed to his heirs. Joachim Möller has been running the factory since 1785, and it continued to carry the title of “Royal privileged faience Faberique”. It came into the possession of the doctor Sebastian Grauer in 1800, then to Nicolay Friedrich Mohns and his sons until 1821 and finally in 1822 Martin Püssel from Lemberg took over the company until 1825 the production was stopped. In addition to this factory, there was the "Pottery on the Sand" in Kellinghusen, run by the brothers Christian Hinrich and Georg Geppel (Gippels), who had started making faience in 1783. Both had worked for Carsten Behrens for a short time and also received a royal privilege, but their production ended as early as 1809. A company owned by Rathje Moeller is named as the third factory, and it says here that he died in 1790 and his widow had the journeyman Hans Jacob Stemmann married and took over the company. The information about whether there were three or six factories is different, there were only three or four Möller (Moeller), Hans, Jo [a] chim, Rathje and Thies Möller.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Justus Brinckmann: Guide through the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry . Verlag des Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 1894, p. 382–384 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Writings of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein . Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1875, p. 212–213 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ August Stoehr: The faience factories in Kellinghusen . In: German faience and German earthenware. A guide for collectors and enthusiasts . RC Schmidt, Berlin 1920, p. 516-518 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Otto Riese bidder: German faience of the 17th and 18th centuries . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1921, p. 290 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Jochim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möller, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German faience artist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 1795