Ludwig Louis Hartmann Adalbert Jahn
Born 1839
Died 1911
Active: 1893 - 1903
Pottery painter, art director of pottery company
Born in Thuringia, Germany, the centre of German porcelain manufacturing. Jahn moved to Vienna for a short while and then joined Minton's some time before the 1862 exhibition, where his work was shown for the first time. He specialised in highly-finished figure subjects after 18th-century painters such as Antoine Watteau and Joshua Reynolds. Jahn left Minton to become art director at Brownfield's in 1872, before returning to succeed Léon Arnoux as art director at Minton's in 1893. In 1903 he became curator of Hanley Museum, where he remained until his death in 1911. His children included Albert Carl Christian (c.1865-c.1935), jeweller and art school headmaster, and Francis H. Aloysius (1871-1967), sculptor and teacher.
Biographical information based on information contained in the Victoria and Albert Museum collections database.
Institutional and Business Connections
Director of Minton and Company
1893 - 1903
See Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 275. See also Haggar 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged, no dates are given by Haggar.
Personal and Professional Connections
Mother/father/parent of Albert Carl Christian Jahn
Mother/father/parent of Francis H. Aloysius Jahn
Sources
People and the Potteries. A Dictionary of Local Biography Volume 1
1985
p. 275.
V&A Search the collections
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O11124/vase-and-cover/ (accessed 22 March 2011)
Citing this record
'Ludwig Louis Hartmann Adalbert Jahn', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1225119305, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
