Strasbourg faience

The Hannong made ​​porcelain figures in the compagnie Strasbourg Haguenau Strasbourg in XVIII. Century ago. Three generations of the family Hannong initiated the Compagnie Strasbourg Haguenau 1721-1784.

Karl -Franz Hannong (1669-1739)

Karl -Franz Hannong, Dutch was born in Maastricht in 1669. He married Anne in Cologne Nikke and settled in Strasbourg in 1709 settled where he worked since 1721 with Henri guard field and established a faience factory. Later Guard field left the city and headed Hannong the manufactory alone. A second factory was founded in 1724, which was located in Haguenau.

Paul Anton Hannong (1700-1760)

Paul Hannong, his son took over in 1732 the management of the Strasbourg factory while his brother Balthazar, the Manufacture in Haguenau initiated. Balthazar sold his factory in 1737 to his brother Paul, who worked with polychrome faience and produced. After he learned of the " Arcanum " the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger, he successfully manufactured since 1751 porcelaine dure. He took on in 1753 contact with Madame de Pompadour, who was a passionate collector of Meissen porcelain. He hoped presumably thereby obtain the approval of a porcelain factory. But was Pompadour already patron of the factory in Vincennes, whose director was probably responsible for ensuring that the French king in 1754 Paul Anton Hannong withheld the authorization and also prompted the closure of its operations in Strasbourg. On May 26, 1755 Paul received by the Elector Karl Theodor ( Palatinate and Bavaria ) the privilege of setting up a porcelain factory. In the same year Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti was commissioned by the Paul Anton Hannoung an empty dragoon barracks to a porcelain factory. The structural requirements for the relocation of the previously established in Strasbourg factory Hannongs were created. This could also be the Strasbourg glaze mill and kilns are laid. Paul began immediately with its porcelain production with Strasbourg labor in Palatine Frankenthal is already possible in 1756 visited the Elector Carl Theodor Frankenthal manufactory, which had already been produced goods worth 25,000 guilders. 1757, Paul also workers from Meissen on. The local porcelain factory was seven years long managed by the family Hannong. With the change of location changed the production of Porzellanbasus and went now from the Making gingerbread base for rocaille. The " Fabrique transparent Porcelains " was subsidized by the Elector Carl Theodor and received the rank of a court manufactory monopolies.

• Gingerbread base - Paul Hannong, Strasbourg

Camel

Elephant

Man

Joseph Adam & Peter Anton Hannong ( 1739 - 1794 )

After the death of his father took over the leadership of Paul 's eldest son Joseph Hannong. However, in 1760 there was a dispute between Adam Joseph and his younger brother Peter Anton Hannong about the "Arcanum " ( the secret knowledge production ). A year later, business failures. 1762 had to sell their factory to the elector 's family Hannong.

• Rocaille base - Frankenthaler porcelain