Peter Eggebrecht

Peter Eggebrecht (* 1680 in Berlinchen ; † 1738 in Dresden ) was a faience potter in the Dresden faience factory .

Life

Peter Eggebrecht was born around 1680 in Berlinchen (West Pomerania), today Barlinek (Poland). He learned how to make faience in Delft , which is why he was later called "the Dutchman". Delft Pottery or Delft Blue became very famous all over the world, but it is not porcelain. The term faience is derived from the northern Italian city of Faenza, where pottery was the first to be coated with a transparent lead glaze. Peter Eggebrecht, "porcelain turner from Kleinberlinchen", married Anna Elisabeth Horn on September 13, 1703 in Berlin Jerusalem , the daughter of Jacob Horn, citizen and resident of Köpenick.

In 1709 he applied to Dresden for a concession to manufacture faience, but to no avail. Then he takes care of the burning of the red stoneware. From June 1710 he was head of the “Dutch round and stone bakery”, ie the Dresden faience manufacture Johann Friedrich Böttgers . Böttger had already worked out the recipe in 1707. On June 23, 1712, the faience factory was leased to Eggebrecht for six years. At first it was in Altendresden (today Dresden-Neustadt), in the "Bohemian House", but then had to be relocated, behind today's Kügelgenhaus . From there it is only a few steps to the Dreikönigskirche . In January 1718 Eggebrecht bought the faience factory, but in August he went to the Tsar's court in St. Petersburg, where he had received a two-year contract. But it doesn't last long for him and after the two years he will come back to Dresden immediately. In 1721 he had his own faience manufacturing privilege. In 1724 he complained about the porcelain painter Johann Gregorius Höroldt in Meißen, who made his people off him. It was then Count von Schaffgotsch who wanted to bring him to Wroclaw in 1733 with a privilege for a faience manufacture. Since 1731 he tried in vain to get a job as an inspector at the Meissen porcelain factory. In 1735 and 1737 he offered to demonstrate porcelain samples. He then died of a stomach fever over this sample. He was then buried in Altendresden on May 23, 1738.

family

At least seven of his children are known to date, most of whom died early. His son Carl Friedrich told the king in 1739 that production had decreased and that he was penniless. A request for employment in Meissen was refused. A daughter, Johanna Elisabeth Eggebrecht, was born on October 15, 1710 in Dresden and in 1732 married the porcelain artist Johann Joachim KÄNDER (1706–1775). Johanna Elisabeth was buried next to her husband in the St. Afra cemetery in Meißen in 1798.

literature

• Otto Walcha : Meissen porcelain. VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1973, ISBN 3-364-00012-3 .
• August Stöhr : German faience and German earthenware: A manual for collectors and enthusiasts. Richard Carl Schmidt publishing house, Berlin 1920.
• Karl August Engelhardt : JF Böttger, inventor of Saxon porcelain. Verlag Barth, Leipzig, 1837 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Rückert: Biographical data of the Meißen manufacturers of the 18th century . Bavarian National Museum, 1990, ISBN 978-3-925058-13-4 .

Web links

• Peter Eggebrecht's syrup jug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art