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Austrian Art Nouveau Vase Attributed To Loetz
About the Item
Austrian art nouveau vase circa 1900 bronze frame with floral decoration. In perfect condition.
Diameter: 20 cm
Height: 26 cm
Weight: 1,3 Kg
In 1836, Johann Eisner established a glassworks in the South Bohemian town of Klostermühle, now part of the Czech Republic and called Klášterský Mlýn. His heirs sold the Martin Schmidt glassworks in 1849, and two years later Schmidt sold it to Frank Gerstner, a lawyer, and his wife Susanne. She was the widow of Johann Loetz, a glassmaker about whom we know very little. Gerstner transferred the company to Susanne shortly before his death in 1855, and she ran it successfully, primarily manufacturing crystal, overlay and painted glass. In 1879, Susanne transferred the company now called “Johann Loetz Witwe” to Maximilien von Spaun, the son of her daughter Karoline. A year later, von Spaun hired Edouard Prochaska to modernize the factory and use new techniques, with patents filed.
The first fruits of this collaboration are interesting innovations in glass. Success at the exhibition in Brussels. Munich and Vienna were crowned with prizes, also at the Paris World's Fair in 1889. In 1897, von Spaun saw Tiffany's products exhibited in Bohemia and Vienna, which convinced him that the Art Nouveau style was also the way forward for Loetz Witwe. The next eight years were the most artistically significant and profitable period in the company's history. Loetz produced many Art Nouveau pieces.
The LOETZ Style:
The color and the special and typical relief of Loetz glasses give them an extremely refined touch. Loetz was also one of the pioneers in the use of electroplating techniques, and he patented many processes. The innovative and original shapes used by Loetz and inspired by glass objects from ancient Persian and Roman art, are typical of Art Nouveau style glassware. Other equally popular Loetz motifs are vases inspired by nature and decorated with original “swan neck” or “peacock” colored shapes in iridescent blue-green tones.
In 1904, the decline began. After the First World War, a temporary respite came through the production of popular colored opal glass, but the inevitable investments in the renovation of the glassworks in 1920 led to further financial problems. Lacking new ideas, Loetz Witwe returned to adapting his old Art Nouveau designs to the Art Deco style, but sales continued to decline. The Great Depression in the 1920s and another fire in 1930 hit the company. During the 1930s the glassworks changed owners several times. It closed for long periods and finally declared bankruptcy, once again in 1939, after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Utility glassware manufactured for the 3rd Reich during the war, but production ended definitively in 1947.
- Attributed to:Loetz Glass (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 10.24 in (26 cm)Diameter: 7.88 in (20 cm)
- Style:Art Nouveau (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1900
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- Seller Location:NANTES, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7403239445672
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