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  Robert Schellin American Studio Pottery Hand Thrown Floor Vase 1958

  ROBERT SCHELLIN (1910 – 1985) USA

  “Calligraphy” Floor Vase 1958

  Hand thrown earthenware with a light and dark brown glaze with a stylized abstract calligraphic motif encircling the body

  Marks: various marks and estate stamps Robert Schellin, Made in 1958, P88, C118 (paper labels)

  For more information see: Schellin, A Retrospective (Milwaukee: School of Fine Arts, The University of Wisconsin, 1975); Who Was Who in American Art,  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 547.

  H: 23 1/2″ x Dia: 7″

  Price: $9,000

  Robert Schellin’s life as an artist was consistent, productive, and based on firm philosophical foundations.  Regarding his own progress, he had always been aware, as a young art student and later as a mature artist, that deliberately narrowing the focus of his interests to assure a more constant public notice would run the risk of his becoming highly expert, but sterile in expression.  From the beginning of art student days Schellin moved from very satisfying periods of drawing and painting to work in three-dimensional
  Media, frequently in the medium of ceramics.

  Schellin left the W.P.A. in 1937 to teach at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. After a year he moved to East Orange, New Jersey, supervising art in the public schools.  It was during this stay in the New York metropolitan area that he studied with Hans Hoffmann at his Eighth Street School and witnessed at first hand the changing art scene and the growing commercialism of the artists market.  Robert Schellin later returned back to Milwaukee rejoining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin (UWM). His works have been exhibited for many years in Wisconsin and national shows including the Wisconsin State Fair; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1946; and the Milwaukee Art Institute numerous times between 1939-1960.  He was included in the USIA European Traveling exhibition 1959-61.

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  Werner Mantz, Untitled, Gelatin silver print 1929

  WERNER MANTZ (1901-1983) Germany

  Untitled 1929 (vintage)

  Silver gelatin print, patinated bronze frame

  Signed: W. Mantz 1929 (in pencil on back)

  Framed size: H: 8 ¾” x W: 11”

  Price: $42,500

  Werner Mantz is regarded as one of the most gifted architectural photographers of the twentieth century. His talent in this field we recognized early in his career and he received numerous commissions from a variety of prominent architects, first in Germany and later in the Netherlands. His work in Cologne especially, from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s, forms a definitive statement of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in architecture.

  Works by Werner Mantz can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tate London and many more.