Karl-Franz Hannong

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Karl Franz Hannong (also: Charles-François Hannong, * 1669 in Maastricht , † 24. April 1739 in Strasbourg ) was a Dutch-French ceramist and entrepreneur who initially with the production of clay pipes and later with the production of pottery employed . In 1721 he founded the Compagnie Strasbourg-Haguenau faience manufacture in Strasbourg, which was run by members of the family for three generations until 1784.

Karl Franz Hannong, the son of an officer and Petronilla Joster according to the entry in the city register of the city of Strasbourg, immigrated from the Netherlands to Cologne , where he married the daughter of the local pipe maker Johann Nicke, Anne Nicke . The marriage had at least seven children, two of whom also took up the father's profession: Paul Antoine (around 1700 / 01–1760) and Balthasar (probably 1705–1766).

When Paul Antoine was born, the family lived in Mainz , from where Hannong moved on to Strasbourg in 1709. In the same year he founded a pipe factory in Stampfgasse, acquired citizenship on August 27, 1710 and joined the masons' guild. In 1721 he founded a faience factory together with the faience painter Johann Heinrich Wachenfeld , who originally came from Wolfhagen and had learned his trade in Ansbach . Wachenfeld had received support in the city because he pretended to be in possession of the so-called arcanum, i.e. the knowledge of how to make real porcelain, but then had difficulties with the fire of the pieces, as he had probably been a porcelain painter in Meissen , and thus could not have acquired the necessary knowledge in the strictly labor-sharing production facilities. The cooperation with Hannong, however, got the faience production going. Wachefels left Strasbourg in 1723 and went to Durlach, where he opened his own factory. Hannong now worked with four journeymen, soon leased the glaze mill from the city and founded another faience factory in Haguenau in 1724 , which he and the Strasbourg branch handed over to his sons in 1730. In 1732 he finally retired from business life.

In 1729 Hannong, although not a native of Strasbourg, was elected to the city's small council after having been appointed as lay judge several times within his guild.

literature

  • Jacques Bastian: Les Hannong: étude des décors peints sur les faïences et porcelaines à Strasbourg et Haguenau, 1721-1784. , Strasbourg 1986 (dissertation)
  • Jacques Bastian: Charles-François Hannong. In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne. Volume 15, p. 1406
  • Hans Haug: Le 'vieux Strasbourg': Notes sur la famille Hannong. In: Le messager d'Alsace-Lorraine. 1913, number 441, pp. 104-105
  • Ernst Polaczek: Contributions to the history of Strasbourg ceramics. I. The beginnings of the faience industry. In: Georg Biermann (ed.): The Cicerone. Semi-monthly publication for the interests of the art researcher and collector. 1.1909, issue 12, pp. 385-391
  • August Schricker: Strasbourg Feyencen and Porcelain and the Hannong Family 1710–1780. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt. Organ of the arts and crafts associations Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Frankfurt a. M., Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe IB, Königsberg i. Prussia, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Pforzheim and Stuttgart. Seemann, Leipzig. NF 2.1891, No. 9, pp. 114-123
  • August Stoehr: The Alsatian factories of the Hannong. In: Ders .: German faience and German earthenware. A guide for collectors and enthusiasts. Schmidt, Berlin 1920, pp. 264-275
  • Hannong, Charles François in: General Artist Lexicon . = Artists of the World. AKL online. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004ff., ISBN 978-3-598-41800-6 , Doc-ID: 00066778T2.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hannong, Charles François in: General Artists Dictionary . = Artists of the World. AKL online. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004ff., ISBN 978-3-598-41800-6 , Doc-ID: 00066778T2.
  2. Schricker (1891), p. 114
  3. Stoehr (1920), p. 265
  4. Schrinck (1891), p. 115f.
  5. Polaczek (1909), p. 385
  6. Schricker (1891), p. 116