Michel Victor Acier

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Michel Victor Acier (born January 20, 1736 in Versailles near Paris , † February 16, 1799 in Dresden ) was a French sculptor and porcelain modeler in Saxony.

Life

Michel Victor Acier was born in Versailles (France) in 1736 as the son of a wine merchant. At the request of his father Victor, he was trained as a sculptor at the Académie Royale in Paris and in 1759 took part in the Grand Prix de Sculpture of the École Académique. He created small sculptures, but found it difficult to assert himself in Paris, and when the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory was looking for new modellers abroad in 1764, he took the opportunity to move to Dresden. After Kändler's death in 1775, Acier was solely responsible for the artistic design of the Meissen porcelain. Commissioned by King Friedrich II , he created a bas-relief in 1783 with a representation of the fallen Count of Schwerin. He was made an honorary member of the Berlin Art Academy . From 1780 Acier worked as a royal Saxon modeling master in Dresden. In 1780 he was made an honorary member of the Dresden Art Academy . Acier died in Dresden in 1799 and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery. One of his great-grandchildren is the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893).

Works (selection)

State Art Collections Dresden , Porcelain Collection :

  • 1774: The good mother
  • 1775: The happy parents
  • 1775: Homage group
  • 1775: Lidded vase with sepia painting
  • around 1775: Two children with a cradle
  • 1775: boy with Schepper
  • around 1775: Agriculture
  • 1777: The broken eggs
  • 1778: Spring and Autumn
  • 1779: Congress of Teschen
  • 1779: 24 gardener and winemaker children
  • 1780: Three children playing

State Porcelain Manufactory Meißen :

  • 1768: Annette et Lubin
  • 1772: Parts of the centerpiece for Catherine II of Russia
  • 1775–1778: Foreign currency children
  • 1777/78: Gellert monument I and II
  • 1778: Bust of Frederick II of Prussia
  • 1778: Frederick II of Prussia on horseback

National Museum Wroclaw :

  • 1783: Death of Field Marshal Schwerin, plaster bas-relief

literature

  • W. Goder: Michel Victor A. on his 250th birthday , in: Keramos 112/1986, pp. 25–40.
  • L. Braun: Čajkovskijs French great-grandfather Michel Victor A. , in: Mitteilungen der Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft 10/2003, pp. 74–82.
  • The Acier family in Dresden , in: ibid. 11/2004, pp. 58–60; U. Pietsch (ed.), Meissen for the Tsars, Munich 2004.
  • P. v. Spee: The classicist porcelain sculpture of the Meissen manufactory from 1764 to 1814 , Diss.Bonn 2004 (MS),
  • L. Braun / J. Haeusler / O. Landmann: Genealogica , in: Mitteilungen der Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft 16/2009, pp. 12–40. - DBA I, III; DBE 1, p. 19; Thieme / Becker, vol. 1, p. 47f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives départementales des Yvelines, Registres paroissiaux, commune Versailles, 1736.
  2. ^ Dresden Art Academy, No. 3; Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Berlin, I. HA, Rep. 76 old, Older higher cultural authorities III, Board of Trustees of the Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences, No. 9, 169, 221.
  3. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts .
  4. ^ Tchaikovsky Research
personal data
SURNAME Acier, Michel Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acier, Michael Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1799
Place of death Dresden