Joseph Nees

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Joseph Nees (* 1730 ; † 1778 ) was a German porcelain artist .

Life

Joseph Nees was the son of a locksmith. He was probably trained in the faience factory in Künersberg , worked from 1758 in the Prahlschen porcelain factory in Ellwangen , which also produced faience, and then for a longer period for the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory of Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg , which was founded in 1758. In the same year Carl Eugen also established a sixty-person ballet company under Jean Georges Noverre at his court. In his compositions, the deaf and mute Joseph Nees evidently responded to the Duke's fondness for French ballet: he mainly designed figures of dancers; He often created groups of three, consisting of two laurel-crowned dancers who try to put a wreath on a dancer placed in the middle. Nees probably designed around half of around 50 ballet representations from the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory between 1759 and 1767. Several of Nees' dancers are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

In 1994 a group of figures from this manufactory appeared in the art trade, which had previously been lost for a long time: the Venetian Fair , a group of porcelain objects that at that time still consisted of five fair booths and stalls as well as numerous figures belonging to them. Originally the Venetian Mass was much more extensive; it is said to have included 24 buildings and 337 figures. While the human figures at the Venetian Mass are only 7 cm high, the stands are around 10.5 cm high and the booths are around 15.5 cm high. This group of figures probably goes back to Carl Eugen's preference for the Venice Carnival, which he visited several times before he introduced a similar festival in Ludwigsburg in 1767 and in Stuttgart from 1777 . Nees was entrusted with the execution of the group of figures that had been designed by Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel . It was a present for the Prince-Bishop of Speyer , who took office in 1770, and contained satirical elements. For example, a group of five people belong to the Venetian Mass , the center of which is a lady who has placed herself under the hands of a hairdresser. He stands on a ladder to get the hairstyle of his seated customer in shape, while one of the spectators follows the process through a telescope . The male counterpart to the lady with the high hairstyle is a cavalier who is prevented from passing through an archway by his oversized hair bag .

Joseph Nees worked in Zurich from 1768 to 1775 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art also owns works from this creative phase.

literature

  • Patricia Brattig (ed.), Splendor of the Rococo. Ludwigsburg porcelain from the Jansen collection , Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-89790-286-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Notable Acquisitions 1982-1983. Selected by Philippe de Montebello, Director , New York 1983, ISBN 0-87099-351-8 , p. 32
  2. ↑ Yearbook of the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg 1992, p. 175
  3. ^ Nees works in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. ↑ a b Christel Heybrock, Gods, Ladies, Cavaliers - sweet porcelain games. The Ludwigsburg manufacture in the Reinhard Jansen Collection , at www.kunstundkosmos.de
  5. ↑ The hairdressing group as picture of the week on museenkoeln.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.museenkoeln.de  
  6. ↑ The hair bag carrier as picture of the week on museenkoeln.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.museenkoeln.de  
  7. ↑ Works from the Zurich period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
personal data
SURNAME Nees, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German porcelain maker
DATE OF BIRTH 1730
DATE OF DEATH 1778