Art Deco Sculptures

Pretty young lady with her hair combed back, in a long, shoulder-free, red dress with floral decoration and high heels, elegantly striding along with her eyes slightly lowered, while holding up the hem of the skirt on both sides. Skin areas with a satin finish. On a black oval base, artist's signature 'Claire Herczeg' on the bottom. Designer: Claire Weiss /= Klára Herczeg (1906-1997) Sculptor, childhood in Vienna, apprenticeship as a sculptor at the Vienna Arsenal Foundry, studies at the Budapest Art...

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ABOUT ARTIST Walter Bosse (Austrian, 1904 – 1979) was a Viennese artist, designer, ceramist, potter, metalworker, and craftsman noted for his modernist bronze animal figurines and grotesques. Walter Bosse was the son of artists Luise and Julius Bosse. His father worked as a portrait painter at the imperial court. Walter Bosse attended the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1918 to 1921, where he studied ceramics under Michael Powolny, and ornament under Franz Cizek. He then attended the Munich School of Applied Arts (Münchner Kunstgewerbeschule). During his schooling he was given the opportunity to sell his work at the Wienner Werkstatte by Josef Hoffman, who became a mentor to Bosse. Bosse opened his own shop in Kufstein, in 1923. Bosse's work grew in popularity and a number of his pieces were shown at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in 1925. He started designing for Augarten Porcelain Works (1924), as well as Goldscheider (1926) and Metler and Orloff (1927). In 1931, to meet increasing demand (especially in America), Bosse opened up a bigger shop in Kufstein, but by 1933 he started to feel the effects of the economic depression. By 1937, the Kufstein works were closed. In 1938, now divorced, Bosse moved back to Vienna, where he founded Bosse Ceramics (Bosse-Keramik), which expanded under the new name “Terra” to include glass, toys, textiles and a variety of craft items for the gift market. In the late 1940s, Bosse began experimenting with brass by giving his ceramic figures a metal coating to protect them from breakage. He formed a partnership with Herta baller, whose company (the Herta Baller Company) manufactured and marketed the brass figurines, this collaboration was called the Bosse/Baller company. In the early 1950s, Bosse and Baller began exploring a new style of brass called the “Black Gold Line” or "Black Golden Line" of brass figurines. He transitioned all of his efforts to brass and the figures became popular worldwide. Despite Bosse's success with his brass figures, it was still a difficult time for him financially. In 1953, partly fleeing from financial troubles, he moved to Iserholm, Germany where he set up a new shop and continued production. In Vienna, the Herta Baller Company continued to make and sell Bosse's designs. Bosse also collaborated with Karlsruhe State Majolika Works on a number of pottery animal figures.] In 1958, he designed for Achatit Schirmer in Cologne. Bosse also turned his efforts to small, everyday items such as letter openers, keyrings, corkscrews, and pencil holders, all of which bear the distinctive "black and gold" look. A number of Bosse's designs began to gain widespread popularity internationally, particularly his brass hedgehog...

Rare Goldscheider Art Déco Ceramic Figurine. Gracefully posing dancer in a red costume: dotted bustier skirt short at the front with long, wide side parts that are slit on the back ...

Very rare Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figurine: A young lady with blond curly hair in an elegant, brown suit with a matching hat and gloves sitting on a large, red, round box with...

The striding girl leans slightly backwards into the wind and holds her hat on the back of her head with both hands. She wears a dress with a black and white patterned tight-fitting t...

Goldscheider Vienna walking lady wearing hat: This figurine is called "In The Wind". Designed by Stefan (= Stephen) Dakon (1904 - 1992), modelled circa...

These dramatically stylized male and female busts are rendered in plaster, painted in a coral finish and signed "Kupur" a line of sculptures by the Frederick Cooper studio. Each ...