Johann Nepomuk Hermann Nast

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Gold-look mug in the Porcelain Museum in Florence
Nast's tomb

Johann Nepomuk Hermann Nast (born May 13, 1754 in Radkersburg , † March 13 or 15, 1817 in Paris ) was a porcelain manufacturer .

Life

Born in Styria, Nast came to France in 1778 and initially worked in Vincennes in the production of hard-paste porcelain. From 1780 he worked for Hannong in Saint-Denis and in 1782 he bought the porcelain factory from Pierre Lamaire or Lemaire in Paris and started his own business. A few years later he moved its location from Rue Popincourt to Rue des Amandiers. In 1789 he married the baker's daughter Edmée Lecoutre, with whom he had two sons. Nast's wife died in 1810.

After his death, Nast's manufacture was continued by his sons Henri Jean and Jean François, from 1831 solely by the older son Henri Jean, and sold in 1835.

Nast was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris ; the tomb was designed by Jakob Ignaz Hittorff .

Porcelain Manufactory

In 1810 Nast was granted a ten-year patent for his method of applying relief-like ornaments to fired and unfired porcelain. In 1819, already after the death of the company founder, his sons received a gold medal for a three-part vase decorated in relief, which had been produced using this patented modeling method and in collaboration with renowned chemists. Even when developing colored porcelain, Nast had resorted to chemical research that was carried out in his own laboratory. Worth mentioning here is Louis Nicolas Vauquelin .

Nast had its products identified with the red “Nast” logo.

WW Prášil certified that he had a “bright mind and restless diligence”, which would have made him one of the leading porcelain manufacturers in France. His company also won heads of state as customers. Louis XVIII bought handle vases from the Nast company when they were not yet one of the official purveyors to the court. The reason was the king's enthusiasm that Nast, in contrast to his prominent competitors in Sèvres , knew how to make complete porcelain vessels with a metal look and did not even have to resort to gilded bronze for the handles. The fact that Nast employed excellent decorators, including the brothers Darte and Jean-Pierre Feuillet , as well as Louis Pierre Schilt , Camille Flers and Louis Nicolas Cabat , also contributed to the company's success . Modelers at Nast included Pajou and JPB Klagmann.

Nast's assistants also included the Parisian watchmaker Angevin, who supplied him with movements and dials for porcelain clocks, to his customers US President James Madison , whose order it is thanks to the White House that the White House has a service from Nast's production.

literature

Web links

Commons : Products from Nast's manufactory  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b NAST Jean Herman Népomucène (1754–1817) , on www.appl-lachaise.net
  2. ^ Bibliography de la France. 1817, p. 224 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b c Nast in Paris, Pair of Vases, Porcelain, Empire Period , at www.anticswiss.com
  4. ↑ George Savage: Seventeenth and eighteenth century French porcelain . Barrie & Rockliff 1960, p. 200 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ Nast's Factory , at www.britishmuseum.org . Here, in contrast to Savage, the spelling “Lamaire” is found.
  6. ↑ Régine de Plinval de Guillebon: La porcelaine à Paris sous le Consulat et l'Empire. Librairie Droz, 1985, ISBN 978-2-600-04619-0 , pp. 69 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Vase clock, around 1820 , on lot-tissimo.com
  8. ↑ a b Nast’s Factory , at www.britishmuseum.org
  9. ↑ Mantel clock , at www.royalcollection.org.uk
  10. ^ Aileen Dawson: French Porcelain . British Museum, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7141-2801-6 , p. 369 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  11. ^ Charles Holme: International Studio . New York Offices of the International Studio, 1928, p. 29 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  12. ↑ WW Prášil: The watering place Gleichenberg and its surroundings. Braumüller, 1865, p. 336 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Nast, Johann Nepomuk Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nast, Hermann; Nast, Jean Népomucène Hermann; Nast, Jean-Nepomucène-Herman; Nast, Jean Nepomucène Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION China manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Radkersburg
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1817 or March 15, 1817
Place of death Paris