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  Reinhold Klaus / Carl Geyling Atelier Vienna “Cubist Man with top hat and flowers” stained glass window c. 1930

  REINHOLD KLAUS (1881-1963) Vienna, Austria

  CARL GEYLING ATELIER (founded 1841) Vienna, Austria

  Man with tophat and flowers   c. 1930

  Window of stained and hand-painted leaded glass

  Provenance: Estate of Carl Geyling (1814-1880), Vienna

  H: 17 3/4″ x W: 14 1/2″

  Reinhold Klaus studied from 1898-1902 with Alfred Roller at the Kaiserlich-Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. In 1914 Klaus married into the Carl Geyling family and became extensively involved with with stained glass painting. As early as 1918 Klaus worked on a stained glass window for the Siegestempel am Bisamberg in Vienna. In 1934 he became a professor of stained glass painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule, as well as creative director of the C. Geylings Erben glass painting company. Reinhold Klaus, a member of the Künstlerhaus since 1924 received many prizes and honors. He worked on commissions for the St. Veits cathedral in Prague, the St. Stephan cathedral in Vienna and many others.

   

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  Michael Powolny / Wiener Keramik Vienna Secession “Putto” vase c.1910

  MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria
  BERTOLD LÖFFLER (1874-1960)  Austria
  WIENER KERAMIK  Vienna

  Putto mit Füllhornvase  c. 1910

  Glazed white earthenware handpainted with black enamel.

  Marks: MP (impressed artist’s monogram), WK (impressed firm logo in a square)

  Exhibited: Frühjahrsausstellung Österreichischer Kunstgewerbe in Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie (today the MAK museum), Vienna, 1912.

  Model illustrated: Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. XXXI, October 1912 March 1913, n.p.; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. XXXIII, October 1913-March 1914, n.p.; The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art 1913 (London, 1913), p. 218; Wiener Keramik, L.W. Rochowanski (Leipzig and Wien: Thyrsos Verlag, 1923) n.p.; Michael Powolny:  Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900 bis 1950, Elisabeth Frottier (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1990) 1912 photograph with the horse sculpture displayed in vitrine from Frühjahrsausstellung Österreichischer Kunstgewerbe, illus. 4, p. 15, illus. 16, p. 33, cat. no. WV 132.

  H: 8 9/16″ x Dia: 5 3/4″

  Price: $8,000

   

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  Velten Vordamm Keramik / Bauhaus Ceramics Vase c. 1920

  STEINGUTFABRIKEN VELTEN-VORDAMM Werk Velten, Germany

  Vase c. 1920

  Handpainted and glazed earthenware

  Marks: VELTEN-VORDAMM company logo

  Similar work illustrated: Keramik und Bauhaus, Klaus Weber et al., exhib. cat. (Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, 1989), p. 229, illus. 289.

  H: 5” x Dia: 5 1/2″

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  Michael Powolny Rare Loetz Witwe Vienna Secession Tall Bud Vase c.1914

  PROF. MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria

  JOH. LÖTZ WITWE GLASWERKS  Klostermϋhle, Bohemia

  Tall bud vase   c. 1914

  “Opal mit streifen” opaline blown glass with applied blue glass canes and blue knob above opaline base

  Exhibited: 1914 Werkbundausstellung, Cologne (Lötz period photograph, vase for the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition) Lötz:  Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940:  Werkmonographie, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil (Munich: Prestal-Verlag, 1989), p. 267; Wiener Werkstätte Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Christian Brandstätter (New York:Verlag Harry Abrams, 2003) p. 247.

  Form illustrated: Lötz:  Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940:  Werkmonographie, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil (Munich: Prestal-Verlag, 1989), p. 267
  Same ”opal mit streifen” technique illustrated: Glaskunst der Moderne: von Josef Hoffmann bis Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Torsten Bröhan (Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1992), cat. no. 19, pp. 74-77.

  H: 11″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Price: $10,500