Joseph Jakob Ringler

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Joseph Jakob Ringler (born July 12, 1730 in Vienna , † July 5, 1804 in Ludwigsburg ) was an arcanist . He was instrumental in the expansion of porcelain manufacture in Central Europe. Ringler worked in the porcelain factories in Vienna, Höchst , Nymphenburg and Ludwigsburg.

Life

Joseph Jakob Ringler was a son of the school teacher Andreas Zacharias Ringler and his wife Anna Maria, geb. Six. He began his training around 1744 in the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory, where he learned how to paint and manufacture porcelain. As a friend of the owner's daughter, he was privy to the company secrets , which he later distributed as a so-called “ traveling canist ” in various factories, initially in Höchst, where Johann Kilian Benckgraff had appointed him.

In 1751 he probably supported Paul Hannong in Strasbourg in an attempt to produce porcelain as well as faience . Since Hannong was forced to move this part of his production from Strasbourg, the Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory was created .

In 1754, thanks to the help of Ringler, who was hired there in 1753, the production of porcelain was possible for the first time in Nymphenburg, after seven years of unsuccessful efforts there to discover the secrets of porcelain production.

On February 16, 1759, Ringler became the second director of the Ludwigsburg porcelain manufactory founded the year before , but never revealed all of his knowledge of porcelain mixes and firing techniques there, although he stayed in Ludwigsburg for over 40 years. Problems he had to cope with there included the lack of firewood and the lack of suitable china clay.

Ringler retired in 1802. In retirement he received 500  florins per year and 50 florins for renting an apartment. Ringler was married twice; his second wife, Christine Friederika Wölffing from Schorndorf , brought five sons into the marriage.

Ringler in literature

Joseph Jakob Ringler is mentioned in Helena Martens' novel The Porcelain Painter.

literature

  • Siegfried Ducret: The recipe books of the arcanist Johann Jakob Ringler in Ludwigsburg. In: Weltkunst. 10, Munich May 15, 1957, p. 15.
  • Hans Dieter Flach: Flower paintings by Joseph Jakob Ringler and Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel on Ludwigsburg porcelain. In: Keramos. 202, 2008, pp. 31-38.
  • Reinhard Jansen: The arcanist Joseph Jakob Ringler as a landscape painter at the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory. In: Keramos. 184, 2004, pp. 105-108.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ derogation is in The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / E0950P. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, ISBN 0-87099-370-4 , p. 275. and in Howard Coutts: The Art of Ceramics. European Ceramic Design 1500-1830. Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-08387-4 , p. 126. given as the year of death 1802.
  2. ↑ History of Nymphenburg Porcelain
  3. ^ Hermann Hofmann: Friedrich history of the Bavarian porcelain manufactory, Nymphenburg. Hiersemann, 1923, p. 40.
  4. ↑ Short biography on oxfordreference.com
  5. ^ Dinner for DM 40,000. Nymphenburg Porcelain, from Rococo to Art Nouveau. The history of Porcelin and an exhibit at Nymphenburg Palace. on: munichfound.com
  6. ^ Michael Newman: The German porcelain manufactories in the 18th century. Volume 1, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1977, p. 269.
  7. ↑ Frankenthal
  8. ↑ Christina Gschiel et al: tailoring and collecting. The Rothberger family from Vienna. Böhlau, 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78414-2 , p. 132.
  9. ↑ Nymphenburg Porcelain
  10. ^ Albert Sting: History of the City of Ludwigsburg. Ungeheuer + Ulmer, 2005, ISBN 3-930872-25-0 , p. 258.
  11. ↑ Ludwigsburg porcelain on facebook.com
  12. ↑ Michael Brückner: Invest in style. Investment with emotional returns. Pro Business, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86805-718-8 , p. 150.
  13. ↑ The porcelain factory. at www.schloss-ludwigsburg.de
  14. ^ Albert Sting: History of the City of Ludwigsburg. Ungeheuer + Ulmer, 2005, ISBN 3-930872-25-0 , p. 568.
  15. ↑ Helena Marten: The porcelain painter. Diana-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-29061-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Ringler, Joseph Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ringler, Josef Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Porcelain specialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1804
Place of death Ludwigsburg