Kiel faience factory

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Platter from the fourth faience factory in Kiel

Four factories in Kiel (in what was then the Duchy of Holstein ) are known as the Kiel Faience Manufactory , which existed between 1758 and 1772 and produced faience .

The most important of these was the “Vierte Kieler Faience Manufactory”, which existed from 1763 to 1772 and in which very important faiences were created during its existence.

First Kiel faience factory

At the beginning of April 1758, the Kiel magistrate approved a request from Peter Graff to set up an "oven and porcelain factory". It has not been proven whether the manufactory has started production - documents that prove production have not been received, and no products have been preserved. There is also evidence that Peter Graff was no longer in Kiel the following year.

Second Kiel faience manufacture

At the beginning of March 1759, the Kiel magistrate approved a request from Friedrich Nissen for the transfer of a municipal building and the granting of a privilege to manufacture faience. The factory ceased operations in 1760 - no products have survived.

Third faience manufacture in Kiel

In 1762 and 1763 Tobias Kleffel produced faience in Kiel - a terrine has been preserved from the production .

Fourth Kiel faience factory

Johann Georg Buchwald (1723–1806), 1769–1771 head of the manufactory

The fourth manufacture was founded in 1763 by Duke Georg Ludwig , governor of Peter III. (Russia) , founded.

From its founding until 1768, the manufacture was headed by Johann Samuel Friedrich Tännich , and from 1769 by Johann Georg Buchwald (who previously headed the Eckernförde faience manufacture and brought the two faience painters Abraham Leihammer and his father Johann Leihammer with him from there).

In 1771 Johann Georg Buchwald (as well as Abraham and Johann Leihammer) left the factory (and switched to the Stockelsdorf faience factory ). Shortly thereafter, the Kiel faience manufacture ceased operations. Attempts to resume operations at the Kiel faience factory failed.

The faience produced in the Kiel faience factory, of which approx. 200 have been preserved, have achieved the highest quality and are of art historical importance for northern Germany . You find yourself u. a. in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, in the City and Shipping Museum Kiel and in the Ostholstein Museum Eutin .

literature

  • Claudia Kanowski: Faience from the Baltic Sea region. Ceramic treasures of the Rococo. Edited by Herwig Guratzsch . Hirmer, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7774-9740-1 (catalog book for the exhibition of the same name; in it: Henrik Lungagnini: The life of Johann Georg Ludwig Bonifacius Buchwald as a typical example of a faience traveling artist. ).
  • Herbert Lange: The fourth faience manufactory in Kiel - A Holstein state enterprise of the 18th century. In: Keramos. No. 102, 1983, ISSN  0453-7580 , pp. 19-44.
  • Ernst Schlee : Kiel faience (= art in Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 16, ISSN  0454-6512 ). Wolff, Flensburg 1966.
  • Paul Zubek: Schleswig-Holstein faience. Holdings of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum (= Art in Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 24). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1983, ISBN 3-529-02540-2 .

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