Biography
Edmond Lachenal (Paris 1855 - probably 1948 Paris)
Draftsman and ceramist whose genius was evident from a very early age.
At the age of twelve, the young Edmond began an apprenticeship in a pottery near Paris. Three years later he was working in the famous ceramics manufactory Théodore Deck. There he headed the painting department, with motifs that cannot deny their origin in Japan. In 1880, Lachenal founded his own workshop in Malakoff. After the passing of his first wife in 1887, he moved to Chatillon-sous-Bagneux. He designed imaginative tableware, vases and sculptures, still decorated in the manner of T. Deck. As early as 1890, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris purchased a vase with poppy decoration against a night sky. Lachenal mostly executed his own designs, but was always happy to collaborate with other artists such as Agnes de Frumerie or to make use of designs by artists such as Auguste Rodin or P. F. Fix-Masseau, whose works he executed in faience or stoneware (grès). There were also occasional collaborations with other ceramic manufactories, such as Keller&Guérin in Lunéville. Some glassware was also made together with the glass manufactory Daum Frères in Nancy. Edmond Lachenal's works were shown at international exhibitions very early on and received numerous prizes. For example, as early as 1873 at the World Exhibition in Vienna as a collaborator of Théodore Deck, in 1889 in Paris and finally at Poteries Lesur-Tardy in Paris, 1930.
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Literature: Zühlsdorf, Markenlexikon Porzellan und Keramik Report 1885-1935, vol. 1, Stuttgart, o.J., p. 422.
Klesse, Französische Keramik zwischen 1850 and 1910, Munich 1974, p. 92 f.
