Johann George Hossauer

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Johann George Hossauer (born October 5, 1794 in Berlin ; † January 14, 1874 there ) was a court goldsmith , entrepreneur and inventor.

Life

After attending a Jewish school, Johann George Hossauer began an apprenticeship as a plumber. In 1815 in Paris he got to know a new process for the production of light metal objects and found employment in the Berlin bronze factory Werner & Mietke. From 1817 to 1819 Hossauer completed an apprenticeship with the Parisian goldsmith Henri de Ruolz and in 1818 became contre maître in the Manufactory of Tourot the Elder.

When he returned to Berlin in 1819, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Financial support for the establishment of a "factory for goods made of platina, gold, silver, bronze and gold and silver-plated copper in the English style" which later had around 100 employees. In his company, Hossauer developed the serial production of clad goods with the help of a lathe and embossing machine ( balancer ). He also worked closely with Karl Friedrich Schinkel , whose designs he executed in numerous variants even after the versatile architect's death in 1841. Hossauer also manufactured for Friedrich August Stüler and Wilhelm Stier and supplied models for the royal iron foundries in Berlin and Gleiwitz , where he had statuettes and vases cast. The modern series production of Hossauer corresponded to the efforts of Schinkel and Peter Christian Wilhelm Beuth to promote the craft and to introduce modern production methods. For his pioneering role, Schinkel described him as "the most skilful and only one in Berlin who owns and uses the latest technical aids and to whom he delivered several drawings for trophies early on". Hossauer received the gold medal at one of the first trade exhibitions in Berlin in 1822. In 1826 Friedrich Wilhelm III awarded him. the title of Goldsmith to His Majesty the King . In 1855 he was appointed as a judge at the World Exhibition in Paris. In 1845 he sold a patent for an electroplating process to Werner von Siemens . Since Hossauer had no male heirs, he gave up his company in 1858 and from 1859 transferred it to the court goldsmith Emil August Albert Wagner, who had learned the goldsmith's trade from 1842 to 1846, and the merchant Francois Louis Jeremie Sy. The Hossauer company then operated under the name Sy & Wagner until 1933 (from 1934 “Vereinigte Juweliere GmbH”).

Hossauer's tombstone

As the most important Berlin goldsmith of his time, Johann George Hossauer received numerous orders from the Prussian court. In addition to the business connection, he was given personal appreciation when Prince Carl of Prussia took over the sponsorship of the baptism of his daughter Marie Caroline Wilhelmine, who came from Hossauer's first marriage to Henriette Wilhelmine Hanff.

Johann George Hossauer's grave is in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte . In 1930 the Hossauerweg in the Marienfelde district of Berlin , Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, was named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Numerous silver works on behalf of the Prussian royal family, including:
    • 1827 Silver dinner service "according to English forms" and six candelabra in gilded bronze (lost) on the occasion of the wedding of Prince Carl of Prussia with Marie of Saxe-Weimar
    • 1827 Silver centerpiece based on the model of the so-called Warwick vase for Prince Carl of Prussia. Design: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
    • 1831 baptismal font and jug. Commissioned by the royal family for the garrison church in Potsdam . Design: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  • 1827 Parade timpani for the cuirassier regiment No. 8, Berlin ("The timpani of the Mählsäck"). Commissioned by Grand Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach
  • 1829 silver branch with roses . A present from Hossauer to Alexandra Fjodorovna to commemorate the feast of The Magic of the White Rose on the occasion of her 31st birthday in the Neues Palais , Potsdam. State Museum Reserve, Peterhof
  • 1830 silver cup to commemorate the festival The Magic of the White Rose based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , commissioned by Duke Karl von Mecklenburg for the tower room in Monbijou Castle . Hossauer made two identical cups for Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna
  • 1831 Silver-gilded chalice and paten for the church in the Marsow district of the municipality of Vellahn , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Supper can for the monastery church in Dobbertin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Paten for the church in Bergrade
  • Six silver-plated candlesticks for the cathedral in Frauenburg (East Prussia), today: Frombork
  • 1840 sign of homage. From the city of Berlin to Friedrich Wilhelm IV on the occasion of his coronation. Design: Wilhelm Stier
  • 1848 Two silver candlesticks for the church in Weitendorf
  • 1857 oblate bowl for the Protestant church in Tannsee (Marienburg district, today: Malbork )
  • 1857 helmet of honor. Design: Friedrich August Stüler
  • Monstrance for the Catholic parish church in Stuhm (West Prussia), today: Sztum

literature

  • George Hossauer: Motives for my memorandum. Berlin, October 18, 1861 . Decker, Berlin 1862
  • Johann George Hossauer . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 547-548 .
  • Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann:  Hossauer, Johann George. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 652 ( digitized version ).
  • Winfried Baer: Johann George Hossauer, goldsmith of Prince Carl . In: Administration of the State Palaces and Gardens Berlin (Ed.): Glienicke Palace . Hartmann, Berlin 1987, p. 231 f.
  • Angelika Wesenberg : Johann George Hossauer 1794–1874. Leading Berlin goldsmith of the 19th century. In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.): Research and reports . Volume 26, Henschel, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-362-00145-8 , pp. 213-240.
  • Melitta Jonas: Johann George Hossauer (1794–1874) - Goldsmith of His Majesty the King. Dissertation, Technical University of Berlin, Department of Art History, 1992.
  • Melitta Jonas: Gold and silver for the king. Johann George Hossauer (1794–1874) goldsmith Sr. Majesty of the King. Published by the General Management of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg. Arenhövel, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-922912-45-1 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name from June 27 to September 20, 1998 in Charlottenburg Palace, New Wing, Berlin).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b C. Brecht: Johann George Hossauer (1874). In: Mixed Fonts. ed. from the Association for the History of Berlin, I., Berlin 1888, pp. 1–8.
  2. ↑ Hossauerweg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Hossauer, Johann George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hossauer, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court goldsmith, entrepreneur and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1874
Place of death Berlin