Schwartau faiences
As Schwartau faience be 1787-1827 by Johann Georg Buchwald and his son Georg Gottlieb Buchenwald in their workshop in Schwartau created faience called.
Besides the one in Kellinghusen, the workshop was the last to produce faience in what is now Schleswig-Holstein . It forms the end of the series of faience manufacturers in Schleswig-Holstein, which were located in Eckernförde , Kiel and Stockelsdorf (among others) .
history
Johann Georg Buchwald (1723–1806) was an important faience artist and most recently director of the Stockelsdorf faience factory . After this was closed in 1786, Johann Georg Buchwald sent an application to Prince Bishop Peter (in Eutin , Principality of Lübeck ) on July 3, 1787 , asking for three construction sites for a pottery and a house to be shown, which was granted. The house has been preserved, the site comprised the plots of today's Lübecker Strasse 56, 58 and 60.
The pottery founded in Schwartau in the same year , in which, in addition to Johann Georg Buchwald , his sons Georg Gottlieb Buchwald and until 1795 Johann Heinrich Jürgen Lucas Buchwald (1769–1844), for the production of stoves and crockery made of faience was not a great success ; the circumstances that led to the decline of the Stockelsdorf faience factory also applied to Schwartau , so that the Buchwalds lived under very poor circumstances.
When Johann Georg Buchwald worked in Riga from 1796 to 1799 , where he had received a job, his son Georg Gottlieb Buchwald continued the faience factory as a pottery.
In 1799 he returned to Schwartau , where he died in early November 1806. He was to be buried on November 6, 1806. The French troops marching through Schwartau that day , who followed the remnants of the Prussian army under Blücher to Ratekau after the battle of Lübeck , destroyed the warehouse, damaged the workshop, and looted the house. a. stole his coffin as firewood and prepared his body "in the most hideous way".
His son Georg Gottlieb Buchwald rebuilt the workshop and worked until 1827 when he filed for bankruptcy.
excavation
During the excavation on the site of the manufactory in 1975, the exact scope of production in Schwartau could not be determined.
Products
Faience from Schwartau was not known as such for a long time or was not recognized. This was due on the one hand to their attribution to the products of the Stockelsdorf faience factory (in some cases it was assumed that this would have produced until the beginning of the 19th century ), and on the other hand to the small number of known or preserved pieces, especially since the products lack a brand.
- The Schwartau faience is assigned a potpourri that comes from owning a Schwartau family and located in the Museum of Bad Schwartau is; In terms of shape and decor, this tied in with the Stockelsdorf faience , even if its high quality was not achieved. Very similar potpourris can be found in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg and in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums at Gottorf Castle .
- A handle pot with a lid in private ownership can clearly be assigned to Georg Gottlieb Buchwald because it is labeled “Schwartau 1811” .
- Some faience stove tiles from a Bad Schwartau house with a high-quality painting may also be classified as Schwartau faience .
literature
- Herbert Lange: Schwartau faiences? In: Keramos. No. 63, 1974, ISSN 0453-7580 , pp. 67-70.
- Ulrich Pietsch : Buchwald, Johann. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 6. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982, ISBN 3-529-02645-X , p. 39 ff.
- Ulrich Pietsch: Schwartau faiences by Johann Georg and Georg Gottlieb Buchwald 1787–1827. In: Keramos. No. 99, 1983, pp. 67-74.
- Ulrich Pietsch: Stockelsdorf faience. History and performance of a Holstein manufacture in the 18th century. Graphic workshops, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-925402-32-2 .
- Max Steen : Faience director Johann Buchwald. In: Max Steen: Alt Schwartau. History and stories. Weiland, Lübeck 1981, ISBN 3-87890-042-2 , pp. 50-52.
- Max Steen: The house plots and their residents in the old Schwartau. (1644-1900). Self-published, Bad Schwartau 1971, pp. 90–91.
- 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 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 56.7 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 47.4" E