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Michael Powolny Art Nouveau Vienna Virgin Mary Jesus Child on Box Model 93, 1911

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  • Michael Powolny Art Nouveau Vienna Centrepiece with Three Cherubs, circa 1912
    By Michael Powolny
    Located in Vienna, AT
    Michael Powolny Art Nouveau centrepiece with three cherubs - most lovely ceramics item! Modelled by Michael Powolny (1871 - 1954), circa 1907. Hallmarked: Manufactured by Wiener Keramik (Vienna Ceramics) (WK / hallmarked). Material is ceramics (multicolored painted / glossy finish). Model 113 (model number is impressed / bottom glazed) Monogram of "Michael Powolny (MP)" is impressed, too. Made 1912. ________________________________________________________________________________ Subject: Most lovely three naked male cherub's figurines holding a round plate attached to their heads / the mentioned plate is blue painted at bottom side / the surface of tiered round socle is partially moss green shaded. ________________________________________________________________________________ Height: 21.0 cm (= 8.66 inches) Diameter of platter: 24.5 cm (= 9.64 inches) ________________________________________________________________________________ Bibliography: Waltraud Neuwirth, Markenlexikon für Kunstgewerbe (3), Wiener Keramik / Modelle 1906-13; pages 100-101 Elisabeth Frottier, "Michael Powolny, Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900-1950", Vienna 1990, page 200, List of Work (= Werkverzeichnis) number W 113 (WV 61), Model 113 ________________________________________________________________________________ Experts of Fine Arts assess Michael Powolny's work nowadays as result of activity of one the most important ceramics sculptors / designers of Austrian Art Nouveau. Most of Powolny's successors were strongly under his sway since Powolny had left 'large steps' in Viennese Art of Ceramics. Excellent condition. ____________________________________________________________________________________ About Michael Powolny (Sculptor). As both a designer and a teacher, the Austrian ceramicist and glassware designer Michael Powolny was an important figure in the development of modernist aesthetics in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. His romantic sculptural pottery figures embrace the lush, dynamic stylings of Gustav Klimt and other progressive artists, while his functional pieces — such as glass bowls and vases — employ the simple linear and geometric ornamentation that marked the work of Josef Hoffmann and other members of the Wiener Werkstätte Community of designers and craftsmen. Powolny received classical training in ceramics from his father, a potter, and at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, but later joined in the modernizing movement in the Austrian arts at the close of the 19th century. In 1897, Klimt, Hoffman, Koloman Moser and other artists and architects founded the Vienna Secession, a group that fought for freedom of expression against the city’s tradition-bound arts establishment. Powolny’s work reflects the changing times. He used classical figures in his ceramics — female nudes, cherubs — yet would dress them in modern ornament such as garlands of abstract, geometric flowers. Pieces from Powolny’s ceramics company were sold through the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshops) founded by Hoffmann and Moser, and Hoffman later hired Powolny to create ceramic ornamentation for his architectural masterpiece, the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. Powolny would go on to design glassware that combines elegant, tapering forms with precise linear decoration. His most influential work may have come as a professor at the School of Applied Arts, where he taught both Lucie Rie, the great Austrian-British modernist ceramicist, and the American potter Viktor Schreckengost, creator of the “Jazz Bowl...
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  • Art Nouveau Wall Mirror With Flowers And Cupids by Michael Powolny Vienna c 1913
    By Michael Powolny
    Located in Vienna, AT
    Oval mirror framed by a dense coloured floral wreath formed of ceramic, on the upper rim two winged putti, between them a bird in the middle. By Michael Powolny (1871 - 1954) Nowada...
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  • Ceramic Inkwell With Putti by Michael Powolny, Vienna Ceramics, 1910-1912
    By Michael Powolny
    Located in Vienna, AT
    Delicate Art Nouveau ceramic piece: Cylindrical vessel with an openwork relief of running putti, in between colourfully glazed flower bouquets and golden cornucopias with blossoms, t...
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  • Vienna Art Ceramics Art Nouveau Figure Putto Riding on a Cock by Doblinger, 1910
    Located in Vienna, AT
    Excellent Viennese Art Nouveau Item Modelled by Ferdinand Doblinger (1872-1935), circa 1910. Manufactured by 'Wiener Kunstkeramische Werkstätte...
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  • Ceramic Writing Set 'Till Eulenspiegel' by Michael Powolny, Austria, 1919
    By Michael Powolny
    Located in Vienna, AT
    Till Eulenspiegel in a brown-red jester's costume with bells, sitting with outstretched legs on a rectangular flat base plate, an owl between his feet and a low, four-sided inkwell w...
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  • Vienna Art Ceramics Art Nouveau Figure Putto Riding A Rooster By Doblinger, 1910
    Located in Vienna, AT
    Excellent Viennese Art Nouveau Ceramic Piece: Blond boy sitting sideways on a rooster decorated with colourful flower garlands and holding on to its comb and plumage. The group is ba...
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  • Michael Powolny Ceramic Pottery Sculpture, Large Putto "Spring" Winer Keramik
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    Beautiful, ceramic / pottery Putto. "Figure of Spring" designed by Michael Powolny 1871-1954, made by Wiener Ceramic, marked with MP and WK as shown in picture. This is one of the la...
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  • Tazza by Michael Powolny, VWGK, Austria, circa 1907
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    Ceramic tazza, composed of three kneeling putti around a blue bottomed basin. Marked on the underside with impressed monogram VWGK factory mark model 153. OUR REFERENCE N8303
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