Peter Gnehm

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Peter Gnehm, Bern as seen from the threshold mätteli (around 1790).

Peter Gnehm (* 1712 in Stein am Rhein ; † March 21, 1799 in Bern ) was a Swiss faience - tiled stove painter. He also worked as a landscape painter.

Life

The Bernese Burgerkammer (settlement authority) expelled Gnehm from the city in 1744 for illegitimate residence in Bern. In 1754 he received a tolerance certificate and worked from then on in Bern until his death. In the entire area of ​​the former city ​​and republic of Bern there are numerous tiled stoves painted by him, most of them are in blue on a white background, a few in sepia (manganese violet) or polychrome. Gnehm's life's work has not been comprehensively processed to this day, so that neither the extent of his work that has been preserved nor its variance is known. His late work from the 1780s onwards in particular is poorly documented. Gnehm's work clearly had an influence on other tiled stove manufacturers and stove painters in the canton of Bern, such as B. the Hafner von Bäriswil. Peter Gnehm worked primarily for the Bernese master potter Wilhelm Emanuel Dittlinger . However, there is also archival evidence of work e.g. B. for Hafner Häberli from Hängelen (municipality of Krauchthal). He signed and dated his tiles differently with PG or P. Gnehm .

Works

  • Tiled stove by Peter Gnehm in Münsingen Castle

  • Tiled stove by Peter Gnehm in Jegenstorf Castle , dated 1768

  • Tiled stove by Peter Gnehm from Bern, Gerechtigkeitsgasse 81, today in Jegenstorf Castle, dated 1768

  • Stove tile by Peter Gnehm, 1782

  • Stove tile by Peter Gnehm, 1792

  • Stove tile, painted and signed by Peter Gnehm

  • Stove tile, painted and signed by Peter Gnehm

  • Stove tile, painted and signed by Peter Gnehm

literature

  • Walter A. Staehelin: Ceramic research from Bern archives III: From the Dittlinger ovens to the Frisching ovens . In: Ceramic Friends of Switzerland, Bulletin 79, 1969, 3–7.
  • Adriano Boschetti-Maradi: The tiled stove - a necessity and a showpiece. In: André Holenstein (Ed.): Bern's golden time. Rediscovered in the 18th century (= Bern times. 4). Stämpfli Verlag AG, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7272-1281-9 , p. 112.
  • Claudia Lehmann (Red.): Hôtel de Musique and Grande Société in Bern. 1759-2009. Licorne-Verlag u. a, Murten et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-85654-181-1 ( content ).
  • Jegenstorf Castle (Ed.), In focus - the collection of historical tiled stoves at Jegenstorf Castle. Jegenstorf 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Come on, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss faience painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Stone at the Rhein
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1799
Place of death Bern