Max Krehan

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Max Krehan (born July 11, 1875 in Dornburg ; died October 16, 1925 there ) was a German ceramist .

Career

At the age of 14, Max Krehan began an apprenticeship as a potter in the family business in Dornburg. After the journeyman's examination in 1890, he went on a journey for several years. In 1900 he passed his master craftsman examination and, together with his brother Karl, continued the family business, which at the time was one of the last pottery workshops in Thuringia.

Bauhaus Dornburg

In March 1920, the furnace factory had given the Bauhaus the rented space, so that new premises were needed. On March 9th, the painter Friedrich Blau Gropius pointed out in a letter that the Krehan pottery in Dornburg was in an economic emergency. He reported that they would make excellent handicraft products. The traditional company existed in Domburg since 1802. In September 1920 Max Krehan was hired as a foreman at the State Bauhaus . He refused to move the workshop to Weimar, so the ceramics department of the Bauhaus was relocated to Dornburg. Very close to the pottery there was an empty building, the grand ducal stables. This was chosen for the new location of the Bauhaus workshop. During the renovation, the training initially took place in the Krehan pottery. Up to now, this company had produced lead-glazed earthenware and salt- glazed stoneware mainly for the needs of the rural population. Together with Gerhard Marcks , he ran the workshop, whose apprentices included Else Mögelin , Marguerite Friedlaender , Theodor Bogler and Otto Lindig .

literature

  • Krehan, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 482 .
  • Klaus Weber, Daniela Sannwald (ed.): Ceramics and Bauhaus. History and effects of the ceramic workshop of the Bauhaus. Exhibition catalog. Kupfergraben, Berlin 1989, short biography p. 265.
    • Hans-Peter Jakobson: Max Krehan. A Thuringian master potter at the Bauhaus. Pp. 30-35.
  • Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Feierabend: Bauhaus. 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Peter Jakobson: Homage to Otto Lindig. In: Scientific Journal. Vol. 36, issue 1/3, University of Architecture and Building, Weimar 1990, p. 142 ( uni-weimar.de PDF).