Nils de Barck
Nils Ivan Joakim Graf (Count of) Barck was an aristocrat, painter, sculptor, and ceramist. Born in Malmö, Sweden, he lived in Paris from childhood. He attended the exhibition of Japonist stoneware by Jean Carriès at the Salon du Champs de Mars in 1892 and thereafter studied pottery techniques at St-Amand-en-Puisaye. Equally skilled as a sculptor and modeler, Barck won a silver medal at the Exhibition Universelle in 1900. He showed stoneware at the Salon des Artistes français every year between 1908 and 1913. In 1915 Barck bought the Chateau de Montriveau and the workshop at St-Amand formerly used by Carriès and continued to work in the Japonist mode.
