Johann Valentin Bontemps

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Plate with Bontemps decor from Ansbach

Johann Valentin Bontemps (* 1698 in Hemsbach near Heidelberg ; † November 3, 1775 in the hamlet of Künersberg near Memmingen ) was a German porcelain painter and porcelain artist.

Life

Johann Valentin Bontemps was born in Hemsbach near Heidelberg in 1698 as the son of the porcelain painter Gerhard Bontemps (head of the faience factory in Hemsbach from 1701 to 1710). He married the daughter of Mathäus Bauer, the founder of the Ansbach porcelain factory, in Ansbach on February 22, 1729 . Bontemps worked in the Ansbach faience factory from 1716 to 1729 before moving to Nuremberg, where he worked until 1741. Then he went back to Ansbach. There he took over remaining stocks worth 200 guilders. These were intended for resale outside the country. From 1743 to 1751 he ran his own brown porcelain factory. From 1751 he worked for the Künersberg faience , where he became the director of the manufactory. After the closure of the faience workshop in 1765, after several unsuccessful applications that took him to Switzerland, around 1770 he and his son-in-law, the painter Johann Georg Rupprecht , founded a faience painter's workshop in the Memmingen stone arch bath. However, the council of Memmingen expelled Bontemps from the city and banned the faience manufacture. Only a small furnace was approved. On November 19, 1770, Bontemps was allowed to stay in the city. The kiln in the stone arch bath was finally approved after several rejections. However, only family members and a day laborer were allowed to be employed. In 1774, the son-in-law acquired the stone arch bath for 3,000 guilders. The quality of the goods produced exceeded those of the Künersberg faience. Johann Valentin Bontemps died on November 3, 1775. His son-in-law took over the inheritance.

Act

Johann Valentin Bontemps introduced the so-called Bontemps decor from China in Ansbach and Nuremberg . He used blue as the color with a narrow area filling. His paintings show biblical, mythological and landscape motifs, which are framed with a border decoration made of stylized plant garlands. His signature in Ansbach consisted of his full last name and the date in Nuremberg he used only the letter B .

literature

  • Hans-Wolfgang Bayer: "Muffle fire and sharp fire" 250 years of Künersberg faience . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Memmingen 1995, ISBN 3-87437-368-1 , p. 67-77 .
  • City of Hemsbach (Hrsg.): Hemsbach - from village to city . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-442-5 , p. 512 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swoboda, Franz, Pfälzische Fayencen from Sulzbach, Städtisches Reiss-Museum Mannheim, guide booklet for the special show 1982: p. 1
  2. ^ Data on employment in Nuremberg and Ansbach. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; accessed on February 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Bayer: "Muffle fire and sharp fire" 250 years of Künersberg faience . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Memmingen 1995, ISBN 3-87437-368-1 , p. 67-77 .
personal data
SURNAME Bontemps, Johann Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German porcelain painter and porcelain artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemsbach near Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1775
Place of death Künersberg near Memmingen