(attr.)

For a related oval gold and cameo medallion box in the Russian National Museum presented in the original Iosif Marschak Kiev box see: Illustration #560 “Faberge / Cartier” by Geza von Habsburg (2003)

KARL KOEPPING attr. (1848-1914) Germany

GROSSHERZOGLICHE SAECHSISCHE FACHSCHULE Weimar, Germany

Tall Pair of Liquor glasses c. 1900

Blown golden yellow glass

H: 8 1/2″

EGIDE ROMBAUX  attr. (1865-1942)  Belgium

Nymph with Iris Blossoms  c.1900

Finely hand carved ivory in the form of a full figure nymph with an iris blossom and buds, blue agate base with gilt bronze mounts

For more information see: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lighting, Alastair Duncan (New York: Simon & Schuster, Publishers, 1978)

H: 9 1/2″

Price: 9,750

Egide Rombaux, born 1865 in Brussels, was the son of the sculptor Félix Rombaux and student of Charles van der Strappen and Joseph Lambeaux.  Rombaux was one of the more eminent of the Belgian School at the turn of the century; he was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1891, and subsequently became a professor at the Institut superieur des Beaux-Arts in Anvers.  Sculptor and medalist, he principally did ivory groups (such as his ‘Venusberg’, displayed at the 1897 chryselephantine Tervuren exposition, and his ‘Daughter of Satan’, now at the Musée Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels), portrait busts and statues.  He also collaborated with silversmith Franz Hoosemans on a delightful range of candelabra and tablelamps.

OTTO ECKMANN attr.  (1865-1902)  Germany

Pair of candlesticks c. 1900

Hand-wrought iron with floral and foliage design

H: 12 ¼” x W: 8 ¼”

Price: $7,475

Otto Eckmann (19 November 1865 – 11 June 1902) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was a prominent member of the “floral” branch of Jugendstil. Otto Eckmann was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1865. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg and Nuernberg and at the academy in Munich. In 1894, Eckmann gave up painting (and auctioned off his works) in order to concentrate on applied design. He began producing graphic work for the magazines Pan in 1895 and Jugend in 1896. He also designed book covers for the publishers Cotta, Diederichs, Scherl and Seemann, as well as the logo for the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag. In 1897 he taught ornamental painting at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin. In 1899, he designed the logo for the magazine Die Woche. From 1900 to 1902, Eckmann did graphic work for the Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft (AEG). During this time, he designed the fonts Eckmann (in 1900) and Fette Eckmann (in 1902), probably the most common Jugendstil fonts still in use today.

Franz Xaver Bergman (1861–1936)  (attr.) Vienna, Austria.

Bull pen wipe c. 1900

Cold painted bronze, boar’s hair bristles, horn.

For information see: Art Bronzes, Mich. Forrest (Schiffer, 1988).

H:  5 1/4” x L:  11”

Franz Xaver Bergman (1861–1936) was the owner of a Viennese foundry who produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronze Oriental, erotic and animal figures, the latter often humanized or whimsical, humorous objects d’art.

A well-known anamalier at the turn-of-the century, the sculptor Franz Bergman created a number of small bronzes in a variety of subject matter.  Other figurative works were informed by the Jugendstil/Art Nouveau style and the European taste for the exotic as is found in his figures of rug merchants and camels.  His animal sculptures, however, capture the Viennese tradition of naturalistic bronzes.  The quality of the bronze casting shows tremendous detail, which was carefully brought out through the applied patination process known as cold painting.