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.
Michael Powolny / Gmundner Keramik / Vienna Secession Vase Model No. 289 c. 1912
MICHAEL POWOLNY (1871-1954) Austria
GMUNDNER KERAMIK Vienna
Vase c. 1912
White glazed pottery with black striped division and four black glazed ball feet
Marks: GK (in a square) 289, D/3
For more information see: Michael Powolny: Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900 bis 1950, Elisabeth Frottier (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1990); Wiener Keramik, Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Déco, Waltraud Neuwirth (Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1974).
Michael Powolny / Wiener Werkstätte Vienna Secession Centerpiece Bowl c. 1906
Michael Powolny (1871-1954) Austria.
Bertold Löffler (1874-1960) Austria.
Vereinigte Wiener Und Gmundner Keramik.
Pedestal centerpiece bowl, circa 1906.
Hand-painted faience with a black and white diamond pattern on three pedestal legs on a black base with an edge of repeat white triangles and all supporting a black bowl with a white interior.
Marked: Conjoined WK (in a square), KG (with flower cipher in square), 43 (incised under glaze) / 3,1P (painted).
Another example of this same model can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
Illustrated: Wiener Werkstätte Period Photo Archiv, MAK Museum, Vienna, p. 42.Vienna 1900-1930: Art in the Home, Historical Design, Inc., exhib. cat. (New York: 1996) p. 45; Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte, J. Kallir (New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1986), p. 80; Wiener Keramik, Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Déco, Waltraud Neuwirth (Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1974), p. 349.
Michael Powolny / Wiener Werkstaette Vienna Secession “Schneckenreiter” c. 1910
MICHAEL POWOLNY (1871-1954) Austria
BERTOLD LÖFFLER (1874-1960) Austria
VEREINIGTE WIENER UND GMUNDNER KERAMIK Vienna
Schneckenreiter c. 1910
Glazed white earthenware hand-painted with black enamel
Marks: conjoined WK (in a square), KG with flower (in a square), 81 (impressed)
***Extremely rare Powolny model in black and white.
Model illustrated: Michael Powolny: Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900 bis 1950, Elisabeth Frottier (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1990), p. 50, illus. 20, cat. no. WV43; Vienna 1900, Vienna, Scotland and the European Avant-Garde, Peter Vergo (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1983), p. 63, plate 19; “Austrian Architecture and Decoration,” The Studio Year Book of Decorative Art 1911 (London: The Studio, 1911), p. 233.
This model may also be found in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Inventory number 604, 1966).
Michael Powolny / Lötz Witwe Glaswerks Jugendstil Set of Three “Tango” Glass Vases c. 1920
PROF. MICHAEL POWOLNY (1871-1954) Austria
LÖTZ WITWE GLASWERKS Klostermuhle
Set of three “Tango” glass vases c. 1920
Blown tall yellow glass with applied black handles, blown orange glass with applied cobalt blue handles, blown red glass with applied black handle-form feet
Marks: Cecho. Slovakia (acid etched in an oval) (red vase)
Yellow and black vase H: 6 1/2” x Dia: 6″
Orange and cobalt blue vase H: 5 1/2” x Dia: 6″
Red and black vase H: 3 1/2” x Dia: 6″
For more information see: Lötz: Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil, (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989) ; Glass of the Avant-Garde, From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus, The Torsten Bröhan Collection from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Torsten Bröhan, Martin Eidelberg (Munich, London, New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001).
Other Powolny works: Jugendstil Art Nouveau: floral und functional forms, Siegfried Wichmann (New York / Boston: Graphic Society, Little, Brown and Co., 1984), p. 226; Vienna 1900-1930: Art in the Home, Historical Design exhibition catalogue (New York: Historical Design, Inc., 1996), p. 45; Modernism:Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998).
“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.
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