Simon Feilner

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Hans Simon Feilner (born February 20, 1726 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ; † March 16, 1798 in Frankenthal / Pfalz or March 17 in Mannheim ) was a German plasterer , porcelain painter and modeler .

"Lovers" from the Fürstenberg manufactory based on a design by Simon Feilner, 1758, Museum August Kestner

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Feilner was born the son of master bricklayer Joseph Feylner (1697–1768) and his wife Katharina (born Leimberger 1692–1771) and initially trained as a bricklayer and plasterer by his father. He began to work in this profession after completing his training. In 1747 he can be proven for the first time in this activity in Saarbrücken . Further stations followed in Stuttgart and Biebrich . He was then employed at the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory , founded in 1746 . Here he worked as a flower painter, staffer and bossier . After the porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg had poached Johann Kilian Benckgraff from Höchst, this was followed by other employees from Höchst, including Simon Feilner of his own initiative in 1753.

From May 6, 1753 to 1768, Feilner worked in Fürstenberg both as a modeller and as a porcelain painter and was largely responsible for the artistic boom of the manufactory. In addition, he devoted himself to the production of paint, which was of particular importance in porcelain painting and was traded as a "paint canum" as a secret science. It is very likely that he expanded the initially sparse color palette in Fürstenberg to include various shades of green, which were of great importance not least for the landscape painting on the vases. While Johann Georg von Langen ran the entire manufacture, Feilner was its artistic director. As a modeller, Feilner was primarily known for figures, groups of figures and groups of dishes. These include a candlestick with a couple of shepherds (1753), a "large mountain band" and a 15-figure group depicting the types of people from the Commedia dell'arte (1753/54). In 1768, after his dismissal for financial reasons - the factory was in a difficult economic situation and Feilner was one of the most expensive employees - in Fürstenberg, Feilner moved to the Frankenthal porcelain factory as a paint canist . Here he initially continued his activities as in Fürstenberg, in 1770 he was already an inspector and in 1775 a manufacturing director. In this position, too, he probably continued to work as a modeller and, above all, as a paint canist. In 1775 he made a test plate with 60 flower branches depicted on it, using at least seven different shades of green.

Feilner is considered one of the most versatile German artists in his field in the 18th century and the main representative of the Rococo in Fürstenberg. His designs for crockery lived off his training as a plasterer. The designs for figures combine on the one hand the playfulness of the Rococo with realism on the other. His work on the colors in Frankenthal is considered the completion of his work from Fürstenberg.

Feilner was the great-uncle of the pottery manufacturer Tobias Feilner .

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Web links

Commons : Simon Feilner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feilner, Johann Simon, also Feylner Hans Simon . In: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-097344-0 , p. 498 ( books.google.de ). or Michel Oppenheim: Feilner (Feylner), Hans Simon. In: Deutsche Biographie ( deutsche-biographie.de ).
  2. ^ Christian Scherer: Feilner (Feylner), Simon (Johann Simon) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 357-358 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ). or Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 214-215 .
  3. ↑ Feylner (also Feilner) Hans Simon. In: Saarland biographies. ( saarland-biografien.de )
  4. ↑ The Fürstenberg Porcelain  - Internet Archive
  5. ↑ Model number 02
  6. ↑ Model number 03-17
  7. ↑ today in the British Museum
personal data
SURNAME Feilner, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feilner, Johann Simon (full name); Feilner, Hans Simon; Feylner, Hans Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German plasterer, porcelain painter and modeller
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Willows in the Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1798 or March 17, 1798
Place of death Frankenthal (Pfalz) or Mannheim