Karl Hagenauer Art Deco Centerpiece, circa 1930
View Similar Items
Karl Hagenauer Art Deco Centerpiece, circa 1930
About the Item
- Creator:Karl Hagenauer (Designer),Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien (Maker)
- Dimensions:Height: 6.32 in (16.06 cm)Diameter: 10.13 in (25.74 cm)
- Style:Art Deco (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:Nickel,Plated
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1930
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: 1412199763222
Karl Hagenauer
Karl Hagenauer was an important and popular figure in the decorative arts in Vienna in the decades bracketing the Second World War. While primarily a maker of sculptural decorative pieces, Hagenauer — in the same spirit as his peer Carl Auböck— created a wide array of household objects, from barware to office accessories, all designed with wit and a sleek modernist aesthetic.
Hagenauer’s father was a trained metalsmith who founded a bronzewares manufactory that produced decorative metalwork and housewares in both traditional and the then-novel Art Nouveau styles and cast small sculptures based on Old Masters paintings. After studying art and design at Vienna’s School of Applied Arts, where his teachers included architect Josef Hoffmann, a founder of the Wiener Werkstätte, he joined his father’s workshop in 1919 and began crafting items that reflected Hoffman’s modernist aesthetic. In the 1920s and ’30s, he developed an often-imitated style that combines the lithe, lissome lines of Art Nouveau (known in central Europe as Jugendstil) with the simple, unadorned forms of Art Deco. He worked primarily in brass — both polished and nickel-plated — as well as wood.
In addition to domestic items such as smoking accoutrements, teapots, trays, bowls, candleholders and tableware, Hagenauer produced a wide array of small-scale sculptures. (His younger brother, Franz— who took over the family business when their father died — was also a noted sculptor, with a style that could be described as Art-Deco-meets-Brancusi.) Karl’s sculptures fall into two main groups: humorous and whimsical animal and character figures that will remind many of the work of artist Tom Otterness and sleek, stylized animal and human forms, many with an African theme — an “exotic” connotation that was a 20th-century remnant of colonialism. As you will see from the items on offer, Karl Hagenauer was an artist-designer of great talent and many moods: affable, stylish and practical.
- Huge Art Deco Glass Centerpiece Bowl, Czech, circa 1930Located in Devon, EnglandOriginating from Czech republic this Art Deco centrepiece two handled bowl not only visually looks stunning with it's very distinctive green / yellow colouring and jet black enamel a...Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Centerpieces
MaterialsGlass
- Art Deco Orange Scaled Glass Centerpiece, France, 1930sLocated in Firenze, ITArt Deco orange scaled centerpiece / bowl France 1930- 1940 glass, wood, stone measures: 14.5 cm height x 32 cm diameter. Conditions: Excellent consistent with age and use.Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
MaterialsMetal
- Art Deco Cubist Vide-Poche / Centerpiece, France, 1930sLocated in Firenze, ITArt Deco centerpiece / vide poche France 1930- 1940 glass, wood, metal Measures: 11 cm H 44.5 x 18 cm Conditions: Very good consistent with age and use. Barely visible...Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Centerpieces
MaterialsMetal
- French Art Deco Terra Cotta Swallows Centerpiece, 1930sBy Studio Art DecoLocated in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FRFrench Art Deco terracotta sculpture, France, 1930s. Centerpiece with swallows. Terracotta and glass. Measures: Width: 17.3"(44cm), Height: 9"(23cm), Depth: 10"(25.5cm). Few traces o...Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Centerpieces
MaterialsTerracotta, Glass
- Art Deco Glass Centerpiece by Schneider Francia. 1920 - 1930By Schneider GlassLocated in CADALSO, ESGreat condition signed on the bottomCategory
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Centerpieces
MaterialsArt Glass
- Art Deco Etched Crystal Centerpiece Decorative Bowl, France 1930sLocated in Atlanta, GAThis impressive sculptural Art Deco crystal centerpiece, or decorative bowl, was hand-crafted in France in the 1930s. The modernist streamlined rectangular shape boasts a deep geometric etching...Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Centerpieces
MaterialsCrystal