Karl Venier
Karl Venier (born May 20, 1812 in Altenberg , Bohemia ; † September 16, 1876 in Klösterle an der Eger ) was a pioneer of the Bohemian porcelain industry and inventor of a gas-fired porcelain kiln.
Life
Karl Venier was the son of the later Schuschitz forester Franz Venier (* around 1780, † before 1848 in Selurschitz (?) Near Tschaslau) and his wife Ludmilla nee. Klofetz (* around 1780 in Podiebrad). From 1828 to 1831 he studied geometry, stereometry and trigonometry at the Polytechnic Institute in Prague. Statics, mechanics, water and road construction with excellent success. In 1841 he received a diploma from the university watchmaker at the Imperial and Royal Observatory in Prague.
In the Thun'schen rule in Schuschitz near Tschaslau he got his first job, in 1836 became cashier in the stately Thun'schen porcelain factory in Klösterle an der Eger and in 1848 became its independent manager. He made the factory competitive, built a new mass mill, a capsule mill, paid attention to carefully cleaned china clay, better training of porcelain painters and achieved the production of high quality porcelain that received numerous bonuses. In 1850 Karl Venier was appointed director. He succeeded in inventing a new type of gas-fired kiln for making porcelain. The Thun factory was converted to gas firing in 1862. At that time he and his family lived in Böhmisch Wiesenthal, where their son Christian Leopold Venier was born in 1842 in house no. 214, whose mother Christine, née Bayer, was born in 1818 in Klösterle no.
One of his sample plates from May 19, 1864 has been preserved in the archives of the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meißen .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Venier, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 50th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1884, p. 106 ( digitized version ).
- Rudolf Langhammer: Karl Venier. A Sudeten German pioneer in the porcelain industry, Coburg 1944.
- Rudolf Langhammer : From the history of the Klösterle Thunschen porcelain factory, in: Stifter Jahrbuch, 1955.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=boehmisch_wiesenthal&lang=de&modus=&ID=I7351&nachname=VENIER
- ^ Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected persons from the former Reg.-Bez. Eger, Männedorf / ZH Vol. 2, 1987, complete production: Druckhaus Bayreuth, Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Bayreuth, ISBN 3 922808 12 3 , p. 275 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venier, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pioneer of the Bohemian porcelain industry and inventor of a porcelain furnace with gas combustion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenberg , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1876 |
| Place of death | Klösterle on the Eger |